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Mar 14
Statistics Make My Head Hurt
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.
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Planned Shrinkage
As many of my class mates have stated, this week’s reading is disturbing. Not just because it discussed way in which those most susceptible to urban decay and diseases like HIV are taken advantage of and treated like lesser human beings, but because the way in which those things were propagated was so deliberate. Â It hurts to hear that basic services like fire departments were pulled from poor neighborhoods, leading to displacement as urban decay in those neighborhoods grew. I wonder how such policies were able to be passed, and how we can change what happens in these areas, now that we are aware of this.
The connections between urban decay and the spread of HIV is something I wouldn’t have thought much about, but now that I’ve read about it, it seems that we need to make services for people with hiV more accessible, so that people don’t have to be in one specific location to get the health services they ned. As for how to stop the displacement, as we discussed last week, that is a more complicated matter which obviously required further discussion.
