Posted on 09/03/2020 1:33:50 PM PDT by Zenyatta
A new study by the University of Washington-Tacoma argues that one of the reasons why minority communities in inner cities experience hot temperatures in the summer is because of systemic racism.
Assistant Professor of Urban Ecology Christopher Schell and the co-authors of the study concluded that systemic racism in city planning leads to fewer trees being planted in low-income neighborhoods and, consequently, higher temperatures.
Wealthier “urban residential neighborhoods generally have greater vegetation cover, canopy cover, and plant diversity,” reads the paper, titled “The ecological and evolutionary consequences of systemic racism in urban environments.”
“The geographic distribution of urban heat islands and tree canopy cover in cities is also stratified by race: multiple studies have repeatedly demonstrated that land surface temperatures are magnified for racially minoritized groups in many U.S. cities with certain racial groups more vulnerable than others,” the study reads.
(Excerpt) Read more at lacortenews.com ...
Yep. Take Baltimore. Their city property tax rate (2.24%) is actually HIGHER than my combined state-county-town rate!
Also, their income tax rate is 3.2%. Compare that to my own county (2.98%). I mean, Baltimore is even higher than Monkey Canny (3.05%)! What a cluster!
But the poor neighborhoods generate less revenue, even if the tax rate is higher than out in the exurbs, because of the lower market value of the real rstate parcels, and the large number of vacant or abandoned properties.
That was my first thought, the first thing I checked for.
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