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Founded in January 2004, the Humboldt Park Participatory Democracy Project (PD) began engaging residents in a serious dialogue meant to insert longtime residents into the process of building the future of Humboldt Park. Our efforts are geared at challenging gentrification and preventing the displacement of Chicago's oldest Puerto Rican community.
PD is an initiative of the Juan Antonio Corretjer Puerto Rican Cultural Center, a 35-year community organization based on the philosophy of self-determination, a methodology of self-actualization, and the ethics of self-sufficiency of the Puerto Rican and Latina/o community.
With a holistic approach, PD seeks to encourage active participation in community building as strategy to stabilize and preserve longstanding homes and organizations. Our practice has shown that ownership over one's home, block, and community can only be fostered through consistent, deliberate, and culturally relevant engagements. PD aims to facilitate the involvement and leadership of an ever increasingly number of residents in shaping the community's vision. Through education, relationship building, and community engagement, the Humboldt Park Participatory Democracy Project hopes to combat displacement by establishing and nourishing spaces of creative connections for the residents of this community.
The "¡Humboldt Park NO SE VENDE!" or "Humboldt Park is NOT FOR SALE!" campaign developed in August 2007 developed in response to the lack of educational resources on gentrification and how residents of the Humboldt Park community can resist it. The "¡Humboldt Park NO SE VENDE!" campaign, during its first phase, has therefore began to conduct community surveys, host community educational and resource events, and disseminate through multiple media outlets truthful and hopeful views of Paseo Boricua-Humboldt Park.
For more information or if you want to get involved, please contact us at participatorydemocracy@prcc-chgo.org
Age
26
Hometown
Paseo Boricua, Humboldt Park
Country
United States
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