Linking environmental injustices in Detroit, MI to institutional racial segregation through historical federal redlining.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To identify the most pervasive environmental exposures driving environmental disparities today associated with historical redlining in Detroit.

Methods

We overlaid Detroit's 1939 Home Owners' Loan Corporation (HOLC) shapefile from the Mapping Inequality project onto the EPA EJScreen and the DOT National Transportation Noise maps to analyze differences in current demographic and environmental indicators between historically redlined (D-grade) and non-redlined neighborhoods using simple linear regression and a boosted classification tree algorithm.

Results

Historically redlined neighborhoods in Detroit experienced significantly higher environmental hazards than non-redlined neighborhoods in the form of 12.1% (95% CI: 7.2-17.1%) higher levels of diesel particu

SUBMITTER: Shkembi A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11222141 | biostudies-literature | 2024 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature