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Fighting for Home: Film Screening and Talkback
April 24, 2025 · 6:30 p.m.
Garden House
Free
KTM&HC's Revolutionary Perspectives series continues this April - National Fair Housing Month - with a free film screening and discussion about the historical context and present-day impacts of Connecticut's housing crisis.
KTM&HC's new tour, "Creating Community," explores the early 20th-century stories of the immigrants, longtime Ridgefielders, and summer residents who lived and worked on our site as they navigated personal priorities and public good - including an exuberant debate over paving Main Street, led by residents Cass and Julia Gilbert. The latest installment of our Revolutionary Perspectives series continues the conversation, connecting it to historic and present-day stories of how communities change.
The evening begins with a screening of local NPR affiliate CT Public's Fighting for Home: How Housing Policy Keeps Connecticut Segregated. The hour-long special, which originally aired in June 2024, explores how the legacy of exclusionary zoning and redlining imposed a painful divide we see today in our state’s current housing crisis. From CT Public: "Our towns and cities are segregated by race and class because of systemic barriers that have persisted over time. Witness the struggle and determination of those fighting for change."
The film will be followed by a dynamic conversation between Melissa Kaplan-Macey, the chief initiative officer for the Centers for Housing Opportunity and Rashida Rattray-Reid, education and outreach coordinator at the Connecticut Fair Housing Center. The conversation will focus on the broader humanistic themes of the housing crisis: language, empathy, and people-centric stories.
KTM&HC's Revolutionary Perspectives series celebrates innovative approaches to how we discover, interpret, and share American history, with an emphasis on themes of memory and identity. The series is supported by a grant from the Wadsworth R. Lewis Fund. Thank you!
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