Editorial: New tree project will add green spaces in hottest neighborhoods

Written By Ali Croft

September 3, 2020, Richmond Times-Dispatch

On Aug. 24, The New York Times published a report titled, “How Decades of Racist Housing Policy Left Neighborhoods Sweltering.” The study outlined how in the 1930s, city planners and federal officials redlined lower-income and Black neighborhoods across the nation, marking them as likely investment risks.

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