6. Source: CDC. http://www.cdc.gov/VitalSigns/Asthma/index.html
Natural Resources Defense Council. http://www.nrdc.org/health/kids/ocar/chap3.asp
In 2009, 1 in 12 people in the U.S. had asthma,
yet 1 in 9 blacks of all ages and about
1 in 6 black children were impacted by asthma.
8. People of color make up the majority, 56%, of
Americans living in neighborhoods within two miles of
commercial hazardous waste facilities.
Source: Unequal Health Outcomes in the United States. CERD Working Group on
Health and Environmental Health Report on Healthcare . January 2008.
9. 61.3% of African American children, 67.7%
of Asian American children and 69.2% of
Latino children, live in areas that exceed air-
quality standards for ozone, compared with
50.8% of white children.
Source: Unequal Health Outcomes in the United States. CERD Working Group on
Health and Environmental Health Report on Healthcare . January 2008.
10. 12% of American Indian and Alaska
Native homes (compared with 1% of all
U.S. homes) lack safe and adequate water
supply and waste disposal facilities.
Source: Danger Zones: Ozone Air Pollution and Our Children.
American Lung Association. 1995.
11. Blacks are 4 times more likely to live
in a food desert than whites
FOOD DESERTS Source: The Contextual Effect of the Local
Food Environment on Residents’ Diets: The
Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study,
Am. J. Pub. Health. 2002.
12. 37.9 % of black children under 12 and
33.8% of Latinos, compared with 12.3%
of white children, lived in poverty in 2012,
according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau.http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/poverty/data/#cps
13. The national home ownership rate is
65.5%. As of 2008, 74.9% of whites owned
homes, compared with 59.1% of Asians,
48.9% of Latinos and 47.5% of Blacks.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau.http://www.census.gov/housing/hvs/files/qtr413/q413press.pdf
15. Between 1930-1950, three
out of five homes purchased
in the United States were
financed by FHA, yet
less than 2% of the FHA
loans were made to
non-white home buyers.
Source: Beth J. Leif & Susan Goering, The Implementation of the Federal Mandate for Fair Housing, in DIVIDED
NEIGHBORHOODS: CHANGING PATTERNS OF RACIAL SEGREGATION 227, 229 (Gary A. Tobin ed., 1987).
16. In 2006, at the height of the housing boom,
Black and Latino families making more than
$200,000 a year were more likely on average
to be given a subprime loan than a white
family making less than $30,000 a year.
Source: Faber, Jacob. Racial Dynamics of Subprime Mortgage Lending at the Peak.
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs10.1080/10511482.2013.771788?journalCode=rhpd20#.UxZYnPmwLMo
17. From 2005 to 2009, the
median wealth
holdings on households
of color declined far
more than for whites,
resulting in the largest
wealth gaps in 25 years.
Source: Wealth Gaps Rise to Record Highs Between Whites, Blacks, Hispanics.
http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2011/07/26/wealth-gaps-rise-to-record-highs-between-whites-blacks-hispanics/
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18. What kinds of investments
do communities need to get
to racially equitable solutions
that work for everyone?
24. ① Start where communities of color.
② Address tensions.
25. ① Start where communities of color are.
② Address tensions.
③ Build trust.
26. ① Start where communities of color are.
② Address tensions.
③ Build trust.
④ Start with community priorities.
27. ① Start where communities of color are.
② Address tensions.
③ Build trust.
④ Start with community priorities.
⑤ Engage strong constituency-based institutions.
28. ① Start where communities of color are.
② Address tensions.
③ Build trust.
④ Start with community priorities.
⑤ Engage strong constituency-based institutions.
