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Across the US, White neighborhoods have more greenery, fewer dilapidated buildings, fewer multi-family homes: Study
phys.org ^ | 01/20/2023

Posted on 01/20/2023 3:34:53 PM PST by devane617

Historic redlining and other racist policies have led to present-day racial and economic segregation and disinvestment in many cities across the United States. Research has shown how neighborhood characteristics and resources are associated with health disparities such as preterm birth and asthma, but most of these studies are limited in scale and overlook many aspects in a neighborhood that are difficult to measure, including dilapidated buildings and crosswalks.

Now, a new study led by Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH) and the Center for Antiracist Research (CAR) at Boston University (BU) has utilized panorama digital technology through Google Street View (GSV) to identify these neighborhood characteristics on a national scale and shed light on how they contribute to racial and ethnic disparities in local resources and health outcomes across the US.

Published in the journal JAMA Network Open, the study found that predominantly White neighborhoods had better neighborhood conditions generally associated with good health, such as fewer neglected buildings and multi-family homes, and more greenery than neighborhoods with residents who were primarily Black, of other minority races, or of a variety of races and ethnicities.

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TOPICS: History; Miscellaneous; Society
KEYWORDS: housing; racist; wedontneednoflowers
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To: devane617

If group X sometimes cannot have nice things, not their fault they riot and loot in their own neighborhoods after all, then nobody can have nice things.

Which is kinda Cory Booker’s justification for going after gas appliances: poor people may not have nice gas stoves so no one should.


41 posted on 01/20/2023 4:09:04 PM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: PeterPrinciple

They are going to need 5 million dollars and debt forgiveness to greenify the neighborhoods.


42 posted on 01/20/2023 4:09:08 PM PST by webheart
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To: devane617

It’s because that “white neighborhoods” spend time keeping up their own properties and surroundings, instead of waiting for the government to do it for them.


43 posted on 01/20/2023 4:09:57 PM PST by Ikemeister
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To: Paladin2

Maybe Obozo could have left the park and built his “library” in a neighborhood where all the houses are already gone?


44 posted on 01/20/2023 4:10:48 PM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: devane617
Center for Antiracist Research (CAR) at Boston University

Enough with this fake nonsense masquerading as scholarship.

45 posted on 01/20/2023 4:11:39 PM PST by Drew68 (Ron DeSantis for President 2024)
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To: devane617

Why do Democrats do this to Blacks?


46 posted on 01/20/2023 4:12:06 PM PST by Ge0ffrey
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To: Rurudyne

Isn’t NJ one of the highest percentage of nat gas appliance users? I think a lot of poor people have them because a nat gas stove lasts nearly forever.


47 posted on 01/20/2023 4:12:06 PM PST by nascarnation (Let's go Brandon!)
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To: devane617
How many predominately minority neighborhoods have HOAs?
48 posted on 01/20/2023 4:13:13 PM PST by asinclair (What doesn't kill you makes you stronger)
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To: devane617

Stewardship is racist?


49 posted on 01/20/2023 4:13:34 PM PST by SisterK (the final variant is communism)
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To: devane617

My suspect this a political study designed to produce the desired outcome. I have a suggestion for a new long term study. Compare the level of upkeep, greenery, and dilapidated buildings over a 25 year time period. See if the deterioration or improvement in appearance can be associated with changes in the ratio of whites to minorities in that neighborhood over time.


50 posted on 01/20/2023 4:16:56 PM PST by Brooklyn Attitude (I went to bed on November 3rd 2020 and woke up in 1984.)
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To: devane617

It’s like saying the sewage system is not as nice as the outdoors.

Wherever their are democrat zombie cannibals, you will find urban blight, crime, graffiti and health disparities such as preterm birth and asthma.


51 posted on 01/20/2023 4:17:36 PM PST by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)
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To: Terry L Smith

We have large green areas in our housing areas because they make good free fire zones.


52 posted on 01/20/2023 4:18:00 PM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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To: devane617
Have any of these geniuses ever studied whether their conclusions just might be exactly reversed? In other word maybe redlining did not exist because neighborhoods were full of blacks, but because the neighborhoods were dilapidated? Banks did not want to discriminate based on race, but based on the value of housing in a neighborhood.

Low income people concentrated in low cost, dilapidated neighborhoods, which were redlined because of the potential for falling home values.

Somehow every big city has a Chinatown, and miraculously the Chinese-Americans managed to lift themselves up. Most places, Chinatown is now a tourist attraction...

53 posted on 01/20/2023 4:22:22 PM PST by CurlyDave
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

I live in an upscale HOA with 4 pools, walking trails, parks, playgrounds, etc.

I didn’t magically appear here. I worked hard for my family to get us here.

My neighbors to the left are black. My neighbors to the right are Hispanic. This street has lots of different colors on it. The high school, which is majority minority, is ranked in the top 10% nationwide.

My neighbor, Scott, (who happens to be black) and I were chatting about the lawn damage from the most recent winter freeze when a car rolled slowly by with the stereo blasting rap. We both watched silently until they moved on down the street.

Scott turned to me and muttered, “There goes the neighborhood,” before moving his new Shelby into the garage. He hasn’t left it in the driveway since.

Color has nothing to do with it.

Attitude does.


54 posted on 01/20/2023 4:22:45 PM PST by TheWriterTX (Trust not in earthly princes....!)
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To: devane617
Priority #1 at Rat Party Headquarters is to destroy the suburbs...fundamentally transform them to look like Detroit.
55 posted on 01/20/2023 4:26:49 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (No Doubt Now: Stolen Election)
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To: devane617

An uncomfortable question:

Name one area/city/place/neighborhood where blacks have moved into in any number that has become more prosperous, less crime-ridden, and cleaner. Name.Just.One.

I’ll wait.....


56 posted on 01/20/2023 4:27:13 PM PST by nesnah (Infringe - act so as to limit or undermine [something]; encroach on)
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To: cgbg

Residents that don’t take responsibility for their surroundings or themselves.


57 posted on 01/20/2023 4:31:53 PM PST by wjcsux (RIP Rush Limbaugh 12 Jan 1951- 17 Feb 2021. We really miss you. 😢)
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To: devane617

In the late sixties, a new two story apartment building was built in the downtown Miami area that was mostly black people. Within two months the building was trashed, garbage and old sofa’s in the parking lot. The building had broken doors and windows. What a mess!


58 posted on 01/20/2023 4:32:26 PM PST by Colo9250
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To: Jane Long

History shows us that the lesser of those populations will simply take the better land.

Little Rhodesia, if you will.


59 posted on 01/20/2023 4:32:40 PM PST by Celerity
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To: devane617

Probably has something to do with welfare and having to live in tenements or government low-income apartments.

Blacks also have more crime, more high school drop outs, more fatherless children and more gangs. These are the inequities that should first be addressed.


60 posted on 01/20/2023 4:35:36 PM PST by beekay (Missing Trump yet? )
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