I kind of liked the contrast in today’s reading as opposed to the gentrification we talked about last week. In the case of gentrification, it can be perceived that there isn’t any initial intent to do harm but in this reading it seems to be the exact opposite. To reduce the amount of fire departments available in an area more prone to fires, if not intentionally harmful, might be one of the dumbest ideas in New York City policy. One of…
Also reducing these services to force people to relocate somehow correlating through the magic of statistics to poor HIV/AIDS prevention and control literally takes away any fighting chance these people have to survive and it’s awful. You can either die in a fire in a poor neighborhood or you can gamble with a disease that will surely lead to your death.
Although I don’t understand it entirely, I find it very interesting and worthy of further investigation to examine how all these seemingly unrelated factors overlap on each other and connect.
