[CPEO-BIF] "Hazardous Waste Sites in Close Proximity to Federally Funded Housing"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Most U.S. Hazardous Waste Sites in Close Proximity to Federally Funded Housing
New report calls for impacted families living in affordable housing to drive the change to this urgent and ongoing environmental and health crisis

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 
Shriver Center 
June 30, 2020 

CHICAGO - An estimated 77,000 people who live in federally assisted housing across the United States are at risk of being poisoned by dangerous toxic contamination and the federal government has been aware of this hazard for years but taken no action, according to a new report released today by the Shriver Center on Poverty Law, Earthjustice, and faculty at the University of Chicago’s Abrams Environmental Law Clinic and Columbia University’s Health Justice Advocacy Clinic.  

The report finds that decades of environmental racism have systematically put residents of federally assisted housing in direct proximity to these toxins. Many of these residents are Black and Brown and their housing was placed in harm’s way due to the historic discriminatory housing policies of the federal government. Despite the risks, the federal government is still moving people into housing that is potentially hazardous, without notification to the residents, and continues to invest redevelopment dollars into these sites. 


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For the entire release, see
https://www.povertylaw.org/article/ej-report-release/

For the full report, go to https://www.povertylaw.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/environmental_justice_report_final.pdf

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650-961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org





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