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Churches join ‘YIGBY’ movement
By Chace Beech, Spectrum News 1 SoCal
PUBLISHED 11:20 AM PT Jun. 11, 2024
INGLEWOOD, Calif. — As California continues to grapple with an ongoing housing and homelessness crisis, houses of worship across all denominations are pitching in.
YIGBY, or “Yes In God’s Backyard,” is a growing movement, where faith-based organizations are repurposing their property as affordable housing.
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“Theologically, this is about a congregation becoming incarnational,” he told Sojourners. “Not just God for us, but God with us. This is not something we’re doing for the community as something paternalistic, but with the community.”
Rev. Victor Cyrus-Franklin, lead Pastor, Inglewood first umc, “Will California churches build affordable housing ‘in God’s Backyard?” (July 7, 2022)