In the News
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“We are in the middle of a housing crisis. And we’re running out of safe and affordable places for people to live.”
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“I think that vouchers — where it’s helpful — isn’t enough,”
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“One hundred years later, we are still feeling the ripple effect of systemic racist policies. This is the epitome of environmental injustice.”
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“I know that the Army Corps of Engineers use a benefit-cost analysis, and they’re not looking very far past our home values. Those home values that were stunted, almost a century ago.”
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“When I heard that there was a plan to protect my home from storm surges, I was relieved until I realized that — where I live in Berkeley — will be in phase five of the project. This is the only phase that does not include structural barriers like sea walls and levees that would direct the water away from my house.”
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Army Corps map that delineated the wall’s boundaries using red lines, which made her think of the historically discriminatory housing practice known as redlining. “My first thought was, ‘Oh God, it's happening again. And it's happening to me,’”
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“I’m not sure if there is community support at this point, quite possibly the opposite,” Sudderth said at a meeting last month. At a previous meeting with the community, Sudderth said residents felt all their questions were not getting answered.
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“I think we all have an understanding of renewable energy and how this is going to be great for slowing down emissions.”
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“The gentrification monster and the climate change monsters – while they're fighting it out, it’s the people who get trampled below.”
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Housing and the history of race converge in the time of sea-level rise in coastal Norfolk, Virginia
-Podcast, Wading Between Two Titans
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“Putting that ensemble together and them being vulnerable in that moment and sharing the challenges and triumphs, " is priceless
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"Structural oppression...as a state Delegate, governing on the state level, that's how we start. Getting within the system and dismantling the policies that cause inequality."
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"You are powerful.....and you are absolutely entitled to speak to your elected officials directly"
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"Do it, even if the fear of it makes your knees shake."
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“I just think of older people and people with compromised immune systems,” she said, recalling her decision a few days ago to pitch into a community effort to get food to the needy in Norfolk’s South Side. “They could die.” Sudderth is among a group of about 15 volunteers who have come together in recent weeks to collect food, sanitize its packaging and deliver it to people in need. They’re among hundreds or thousands of people across Hampton Roads who are stepping up to help others during the coronavirus pandemic.