"The long ripple impacts of segregation and the challenges of sustained advocacy are among the reasons, residents say."
"Toxic site cleanups take longer in parts of San Francisco where fewer residents are white, a new data analysis from the San Francisco Public Press shows. The analysis also shows that a higher proportion of residents who are Black, Indigenous and other people of color in an area correlates directly with longer cleanup durations.
Across all sites in San Francisco, cleanups took more than four years longer in areas with high proportions of BIPOC residents than in majority white areas. The size, complexity and nature of toxic sites varies and could account for some differences but further analysis shows that these disparities hold when comparing sites of similar complexity and size.
Strictly among comparable sites, the median cleanups in areas where two-thirds or more of residents were BIPOC took more than two and a half years longer than cleanup times in areas with a low proportion of BIPOC residents. Cleanup times across all sites showed deeper disparities based on race than on social vulnerability, a measurement that includes factors such as poverty level and household crowding. However, low-social-vulnerability areas still saw swifter median cleanups than areas of moderate and high vulnerability, by 617 days and 128 days respectively."
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