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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

Those homes, trees, and nice clean lawns do not appear by magic. People work to buy those homes, and then they maintain them, they plant trees and bushes, and they mow their lawns almost weekly. They also do not dump their trash out the front or back door and expect the fairies to do away with it.

If you decide to go on the government teat, you get to live in a multi-family building and hope someone else does the necessary maintenance. The tax payers fund it all for you, so why be so greedy?

It’s all really that simple!


21 posted on 01/20/2023 3:43:10 PM PST by CFW (old and retired)
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To: devane617

Work.


22 posted on 01/20/2023 3:43:50 PM PST by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: devane617

Probably because we buy and maintain our own.


23 posted on 01/20/2023 3:43:58 PM PST by GingisK
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To: devane617

OMG! REPARATIONS NOW!!!!!!!!


24 posted on 01/20/2023 3:44:16 PM PST by gloryblaze
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To: devane617

So what!?


25 posted on 01/20/2023 3:46:26 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is the next Sam Adams when we so desperatly need him)
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To: devane617

Our former Black, now Hispanic, neighborhood is looking much better. After all, they are the people doing most of the construction, landscaping, and related work in the area.


26 posted on 01/20/2023 3:46:44 PM PST by FarCenter
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To: Cowgirl

“The neighborhood gets trashed.”

Well since we are doing “science” here let us be more precise in identifying the “issue”:

—Garbage in streets
—Garbage on lawns
—Noise at all hours of the night
—Gunshots coming from homes and drive-by cars
—Poor home maintenance
—Poor lawn maintenance
—Drug paraphernalia appears in neighborhood
—Children and teenagers playing in the middle of the street
—Cars parked in the middle of the street blocking traffic
—Adults talking loudly/yelling at each other—inside and out
—Home break ins
—Vehicle break ins
—Men outside harassing women who walk by

Feel free to add to the list.


27 posted on 01/20/2023 3:47:53 PM PST by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: devane617
article: "Historic redlining and other racist policies have led to present-day … "

They make these blanket statements without any proof, just plop these turds out there. The Fair Housing Act was made law over 50 years ago.

Think about nature. Some birds such as purple martins prefer to live in public housing. Other birds such as ravens prefer a solitary rural existence. Species of people are the same. Different species, different customs.

28 posted on 01/20/2023 3:50:45 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: devane617

White people rule .... Whoohooo!!


29 posted on 01/20/2023 3:51:27 PM PST by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: devane617

by Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH) and the Center for Antiracist Research (CAR) at Boston University (BU)

Aka

Lieing commie academic ccp fronts with disparate propaganda.


30 posted on 01/20/2023 3:51:41 PM PST by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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To: cgbg
#27: Feel free to add to the list.

Drinking in public. Lazy and unemployed. Rude filthy language. The list goes on and on.

31 posted on 01/20/2023 3:53:43 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

I would add graffiti to the list.


32 posted on 01/20/2023 3:58:37 PM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: devane617
Can't believe graffiti hasn't been mentioned yet.

Always an indicator of a "sketchy" neighborhood.

33 posted on 01/20/2023 3:59:09 PM PST by SamAdams76 (4,818,034 Truth | 87,745,895 Twitter)
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To: Jane Long
the Center for Antiracist Research (CAR) at Boston University

Pronounced as "CAHH"?

34 posted on 01/20/2023 3:59:10 PM PST by Ezekiel (🆘️ "Come fly with US". Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with Mars ♂️, aka every man)
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To: devane617

No kidding.


35 posted on 01/20/2023 3:59:29 PM PST by miserare ( Impeach Joe Biden!)
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To: devane617

Don’t be diss’n tha hood, We like it like dat.

It’s a cultural thing.


36 posted on 01/20/2023 4:05:08 PM PST by READINABLUESTATE
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To: devane617

In my white neighborhood we have four white families, 3 black families, 2 hispanic families a Pakistani family and a Japanese family. Nice and green and well maintained and not much litter.


37 posted on 01/20/2023 4:05:21 PM PST by webheart
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To: devane617

Do you know what else we have less of? Feral humans inciting violence on their fellow citizens


38 posted on 01/20/2023 4:06:44 PM PST by Smellin Salt
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To: steel_resolve

Less crime. Fewer gangs. Fewer drug dealers

Who would’ve guessed


39 posted on 01/20/2023 4:06:56 PM PST by Nifster (OI see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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To: devane617

This done sounds like we need some reparations!


40 posted on 01/20/2023 4:07:47 PM PST by Yashcheritsiy (I'd rather have one king 3000 miles away that 3000 kings one mile away)
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