Scottie Gilg- "Most things are made, but for whom?" Sierra Club study response (Outside reading 2)

https://www.sierraclub.org/washington/blog/2020/07/most-things-are-made-for-whom 

Kesley Hamlin, Volunteer Outreach and Development Coordinator at the Sierra Club,

posted this study in 2020 that goes into detail about how racism, health, and land go together to

shape how and why people of color have been placed into "blighted" neighborhoods. The article is

separated into three categories: housing, transportation, and land use. The housing section talks

about the history of redlining and how to this day, it affects people of color. In transportation, it

speaks on the issue of how the term “blight,” was caused because of the deliberate lack of federal

investment in low-income communities. While “blighted” neighborhoods continue to be pushed

aside, new housing is built, which furthers the commute to jobs, living, etc for people in low

income communities. The use of land concerning public health spoke about how people of color

are more likely to live near industrial land, highways, and fossil fuel projects due to combined

housing, transportation, and zoning laws. This can be detrimental to their health as in highly

polluted areas, chemicals seep into the ground and atmosphere. This article gives background

information on how throughout history, people of color have been exposed to discrimination

due to where they live. This article allows me to research this information and connect it to the

blighted neighborhoods in Newport News. This article gives me more background information

about how and why it came to be like this.

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