Evan has spent the past nine months as a member of the ReStore’s Deconstruction team, a group of Asheville Habitat staff and volunteers that extract reusable building materials like kitchen cabinets, appliances, and bath installations prior to demolition or remodeling.
https://www.ashevillehabitat.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/DSC9409-scaled.jpg17082560Danny Mendlhttps://www.ashevillehabitat.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/AAHH-logo_black_with-counties-tag-300x150.jpgDanny Mendl2022-02-25 14:42:112022-04-19 09:27:21Blue Ridge Service Corps Spotlight: Evan Johnson
In The Sum of Us, author Heather McGhee uses public swimming pools as a metaphor for her thesis that zero-sum thinking about race creates policies that hurt the whole community. In this blog post, learn the history of Asheville’s Recreation Park and how the same zero-sum thinking that led us to “drain the pool” shows up in housing, too.
https://www.ashevillehabitat.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/swimming-pool_-blog-image-1.png33338333Ariane Kjellquisthttps://www.ashevillehabitat.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/AAHH-logo_black_with-counties-tag-300x150.jpgAriane Kjellquist2022-02-24 13:54:532022-02-24 15:44:42Asheville’s Swimming Pool: Learning from the Past
