Is your neighborhood raising your coronavirus risk? Redlining decades ago set communities up for greater danger
- Written by Jeremy Németh, Associate Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Colorado Denver
Some of the highest coronavirus hospitalization rates in Denver are in neighborhoods near Valverde, a community that was once redlined.RJ Sangosti/Denver Post via Getty ImagesVicente Arenas moved to the edge of Denver’s Valverde neighborhood, attracted by low housing prices and proximity to his downtown job just three miles away.
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