L.A. Times Analysis Shows Racist Harms of Freeway Projects Overall for five states - California, Florida, Mississippi, North Carolina, and Texas - large highway building projects demolished homes predominantly in Black and Latino neighborhoodsThis week the Los Angeles Times published a three-article series on freeway expansion’s present and past harms to communities of color. The Times examined three decades of freeway expansion projects in five states – California, Florida, Mississippi, North Carolina, and Texas – and found that large highway building projects demolished homes predominantly (nearly two-thirds) in Black and Latino neighborhoods. For Caltrans projects, the L.A. Times found that 100 percent of the 1,254 homes demolished were in non-white areas. The three Times pieces are:The Times series features fantastic aerial photography graphics showing home demolitions in Tampa and in the L.A. County city of Norwalk. Streetsblog L.A. readers will recall earlier SBLA reporting on these neighborhoods erased by Metro and Caltrans 5 Freeway widening demolitions.

Source: Los Angeles Times November 12, 2021 21:09 UTC