Social Justice – The Alvarado Group

Racial Covenants and Our Community

admin — Mon, 24 Apr 2023 18:18:36 +0000

In this article, we explain racial covenants, which were zoning and contract clauses that discriminated and segregated people based on their race, ethnicity, and heritage.

5 Podcasts Reveal the Hidden History, Influence, and Stories of Real Estate Today

admin — Wed, 15 Jun 2022 19:54:45 +0000

Check out these 5 podcasts to hear some of the great journalism today on the history and influence of redlining, housing segregation, and real estate racial discrimination.

Challenging Our ‘One of the Best Places to Live’ Status

admin — Tue, 27 Jul 2021 15:36:54 +0000

Recently, U.S. News highlighted Madison as the number 16 best place to live in the United States. That is fantastic. However, the article should be taken at face value. Madison often gets put on these lists. We can celebrate this AND we need to question what metrics are being used to get us on this list. Additionally, if it is based on responses from people being interviewed, who are they interviewing?

People over property: One real estate company’s perspective

admin — Wed, 25 Nov 2020 18:32:06 +0000

by Sara Alvarado. Featured on Madison365.com

People over property – that may seem like a bold statement from a real estate company, but it shouldn’t be. It’s something I didn’t think I’d be writing about this year but 2020 has brought on a lot of things we hadn’t planned on....

What it means to be an Antiracist Real Estate Brokerage

admin — Wed, 11 Nov 2020 19:02:39 +0000

What makes the work we do at Alvarado Real Estate Group different? In acknowledging that racism exists in our country and in the real estate industry we step out of denial and silence. We are committed to exploring and challenging the way racism is embedded within the real estate industry as a whole. We practice this work in a way that is rooted in justice, transparency, and accountability to those most marginalized. Everyone in the company has

3 Unsettling Truths about Neighborhood Segregation

admin — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 14:59:20 +0000

by Sara Alvarado The Black Lives Matter movement is forcing many White people to open our eyes to inequalities we have long ignored. One such issue is neighborhood segregation and unequal access to homeownership. Since the Fair Housing Act passed in 1968, the gap between Black and White homeownership rates has widened —growing from 27 percentage points in 1960 to 30 points in 2017—and the Black homeownership rate has actually stayed almost exactly the same. After many years of silence, White communities are beginning to talk about

Real Estate and Racial Justice Resources

admin — Wed, 05 Aug 2020 17:53:44 +0000

So you’re ready to learn more about racism in America’s real estate industry. Maybe you attended a Black Lives Matter event. Maybe you’ve started to notice that the neighborhoods in your city are starkly segregated, and that Black, Indigenous, Latinx, and families of color seem to have a hard time building generational...