Greater than 200,000 folks have misplaced their houses on account of highway development within the remaining 3 a long time around the nation. And in one of the crucial greatest modern day tasks, citizens residing in Black and Latino neighborhoods are being disproportionately suffering from the displacements.
A new Los Angeles Instances investigation examines how freeway planners’ selections to direction the U.S. Interstate Freeway Device via Black neighborhoods a half-century in the past continues to resonate as of late. The Instances discovered that expansions of current freeways via towns in contemporary a long time have inflicted a 2nd spherical of dislocation and disruption on in large part Black and now Latino communities as neatly.
In this episode of “Gimme Safe haven: The California Housing Disaster Podcast,” we talk about The Instances’ findings extensive, analyzing the consequences of contemporary highway widenings in Los Angeles, Houston and Tampa. Our visitor is Alexandria Contreras, whose great-grandparents noticed the 101 Highway constructed a block from their house in Boyle Heights within the Fifties. Lately, Contreras is combating a proposed enlargement of Interstate 5 close to the house of Contreras’ oldsters in Downey.
“Gimme Safe haven,”a biweekly podcast that appears at why it’s so dear to reside in California and what the state can do about it, options Liam Dillon, who covers housing affordability problems for the Los Angeles Instances, and Manuela Tobías, housing reporter for CalMatters.
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