Vision: "To enhance the vitality of the Baton Rouge community through civic-minded and service-oriented young professionals."
In the Summer of 2020, Forum 225 coordinated a three-part series to help educate the community on racism in the region featuring local community leaders:
Part One: The History of Institutional Racism in Baton Rouge and Louisiana [1 hour 35 minutes]
Part Two: The History and Impact of Protest in Baton Rouge and Louisiana [1 hour 26 minutes]
Part Three: Dismantling Systems of Racism in Baton Rouge and Louisiana [1 hour 39 minutes]
USDA RD Louisiana: https://www.rd.usda.gov/la
"We are committed to helping improve the economy and quality of life in rural America. Through our programs, we help rural Americans in many ways." - About RD
Single Family Housing Repair Loans & Grants [PDF Fact Sheet]
"Why does USDA Rural Development do this?
Helping people stay in their own home and keep it in good repair helps families and their communities. Homeownership helps families and individuals build savings over time. It strengthens communities and helps many kinds of businesses that support the local economy."
Rural Home Loans (Direct Program) [PDF Fact Sheet]
"Why does USDA Rural Development do this?
USDA Rural Development’s Section 502 Direct Loan Program provides a path to homeownership for low- and very-low-income families living in rural areas, and families who truly have no other way to make affordable homeownership a reality. Providing these affordable homeownership opportunities promotes prosperity, which in turn creates thriving communities and improves the quality of life in rural areas."
Louisiana Fair Housing Action Center
1340 Poydras St #710, New Orleans, LA 70112
504-596-2100
2415 Quail Drive, Baton Rouge, LA 70808
225-763-8700
https://www.lhc.la.gov/fair-housing
City of Baton Rouge - Parish of East Baton Rouge Parish
P.O. Box 1471, Baton Rouge, LA 70821
225-389-3000
Free First Sunday / Community Quilt Installation on View
March 7 from 1-5 p.m. / Free admission
Letitia Huckaby: This Same Dusty Road closing March 14
Free admission from 1-5 p.m. View LSU Museum of Art's current exhibition, Letitia Huckaby: This Same Dusty Road, before it closes March 14. Roam the galleries and view LSU MOA's Community Quilt Project, an installation where portrait submissions from the community have been created into quilts. Masks required. Thank you to our sponsors of Free First Sunday: Louisiana Lottery Corporation, IBERIABANK, a division of First Horizon, and Louisiana CAT.
Upcoming Programs / The Art of Seating: Two Hundred Years of American Design
Sit and Learn Series
Learn more from contemporary chair designers, hear from local chair collectors, and explore Louisiana chair history with local scholars. Stay tuned for interactive chair challenges and more activities in this series.
National Building Museum’s traveling Evicted Exhibition is coming to Baton Rouge!
March 25 - May 28, 2021
Evicted is an immersive, thought-provoking exhibition that addresses the reality of low-income renter eviction, based upon the book of the same title by Matthew Desmond. The exhibition will be on display at the Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge’s Firehouse Gallery (427 Laurel Street) from March 25 through May 28, 2021. This exhibition is included as part of the Arts Council’s annual Ebb & Flow festival season’s ART FLOW, which hosts touring exhibitions biannually, with a juried Statewide visual art competition occurring in alternating years.
A collaboration with best-selling author, professor of sociology at Princeton University, and MacArthur “Genius” Fellow Matthew Desmond, Evicted offers an immersive experience bringing visitors into the world of low-income renter eviction. With unique design elements and striking graphics, the exhibition challenges adults and youth to face the enormity of a difficult subject, while providing context and a call to action.
Brought to you by the Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge
Firehouse Gallery, 427 Laurel Street, Baton Rouge, LA 70801
For more information, including program dialogue and exhibition sponsorship, please contact Sharbreon Plummer, 225-344-8558 or splummer@artsbr.org
Mission: "Bringing people and resources together to promote equitable investment, innovative development, and thriving communities across all of Baton Rouge."
Build Baton Rouge provides a Toolbox of key terms and definitions to help you navigate the world of housing is the region: https://buildbatonrouge.org/resources/toolbox/
Mission: "Founded in 2012, MetroMorphosis is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to transform urban communities from within. Through this mission, the organization seeks to develop and mobilize a critical mass of engaged citizens to design and implement sustainable solutions to persistent community challenges."
Urban Renewal Blog & Podcast: https://metromorphosis.net/urbanrenewal/
"The LHC administers federal and state funds through programs designed to advance the development of energy efficient and affordable housing for low and moderate income families, drives housing policy for Louisiana and oversees the state’s Disaster Housing Task Force." - Purpose & History
Resources for Homeownership: https://www.lhc.la.gov/resources-for-homeownership
Hurricane Katrina [64 Parishes]:
Hurricane Katrina's landfall in Louisiana and the subsequent levee failures resulted in one of the worst disasters in United States history.
