The Spatial Futures Initiative is a potent catalyst and visionary policy hub for reparative spatial justice work in land and housing. Reparative Spatial justice reimagines spaces to enable historically marginalized communities to reclaim their connection to land and obtain restitution for the long-standing impacts of racist policies and practices. In this expansive movement, PolicyLink is dedicated to connecting and elevating these diverse efforts. 

The movement for reparative spatial justice is reimagining and reshaping spaces to enable historically marginalized communities to reclaim their connection to land and obtain restitution for the long-standing impacts of racist policies and practices. Reparative spatial justice aims not just to redistribute tangible assets like land and housing but to foster intangible yet essential elements like healing, growth, and well-being.  

The PolicyLink housing team launched the Spatial Futures Initiative to serve as a catalyst and policy hub that uproots and amends racial inequities in land and housing policies in the United States going back for centuries. Our mission is to gather and distribute resources that catalyze communities to create initiatives that repair the past while shaping a more just present and future in land and housing. 

Goals of the Spatial Futures Initiative

• Illuminate systemic inequities in policy architecture. 
• Architect transformative policy recommendations.  
• Amplify reparative spatial justice recommendations. 
• Build movement infrastructure. 
• Forge narrative strategies.

Employing a wide range of methodologies to achieve these goals, the initiative will produce a wide set of tools, including the Spatial Futures Fellowship, a policy scan, policy blueprints, frontline stories, and an array of multimedia tools to share initiative findings.