Six years ago Roxbury a neighbourhood in Boston, Massachusetts, was being eaten alive by the local tech industry. Roxbury residents were losing housing to well-paid tech employees who moved from other cities for work in Boston. They were buying up property and rapidly gentrifying a traditional black neighborhood.
Then a local project opened. It was called G{code} House, and offered education to women and non-binary young Black people, providing housing as well as training.
For six years now, students have been completing a three month tech training course. Graduation has opened the door to employment in very industry that has been ravaging the community — a major reason for the rise in local housing costs.
G{code} House has made it possible for young men and women to compete economically in their own neighborhood and win. Read more about G{code} and Bridgette Wallace, its founder, in Next City:
1: This Project Provides Housing And Tech Training For Boston’s Young Women Of Color
