When it launched a first-in-the-nation anti-displacement fund in 2016, Seattle established itself as a leader in racial equity. But a new attack on the City’s Equitable Development Initiative (EDI), part of a national backlash against government efforts to address systemic racism and inequality, threatens that progress.

Read the full article, by Ben Palmquist, Quynh Pham, and Ryan Curren at Next City.

Quynh Pham is the executive director of Friends of Little Sài Gòn, the social, economic and cultural hub of the Vietnamese community in the Puget Sound region.

Ryan Curren is Race Forward’s director of housing, land and development.

Ben Palmquist is the program director of Partners for Dignity & Rights’ New Social Contract project.