US freeway expansion projects come at a cost to communities of color: Report
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on November 15, 2021
A new analysis of interstate highway expansion in the United States has shed light on the “deeply racist history” of the project, and how it has targeted properties predominantly in Black and Latino neighborhoods.
In a three-article series on harms inflicted by freeway expansion to communities of color in the US, the Los Angeles Times this week revealed that the mid-20th century large highway construction projects in many key states came at a heavy cost to the communities of color.
The report found that 100 percent of the 1,254 homes . . .
