I am a delivery driver-courier in Denver and the state of Colorado. I travel that section of road about 500 times per year. The housing in that neighborhood is pathetic. All the State probably needs to do is pay double what the houses are worth and then demolish all the houses within 200 yards of the construction. No body who lives next to the interstate in that stretch of road wants to be there. They would gladly leave if they could afford to live anywhere else. With double the money, they could move to Commerce City or East Denver or and other low income neighborhood that is far better than the houses right next to the elevated interstate. Seriously, no one who could do better would want to live there now.
It sounds like you are letting fact get in the way of an activist Social Warrior cause.