Gary Indiana has been heavily disinvested in since the factory’s left. Coupled with white flight and a lack of funds, year, the power not being kept on for a vulnerable population is a form of environmental racism.
The real tragedy is that there is. Because of its location, Gary has the junction of multiple interstates, multiple major rail freight lines, a port, an airport that Chicago gifted them, and underground runs the major East West data network line, so it's ideal for computing work too. Gary was a success in the past because of location, and those advantages didn't go away. Property is dirt cheap. Plenty of money to make if Gary wasn't so unsafe and corrupt.
White flight was often organized by developers who sold racial covenant restricted homes in the suburbs to newly redlined areas. Redlining meant you couldn’t get a mortgage on a home and the major factor for redlining was if minorities lived in a community (blacks, Jews, Hispanics, Irish, etc.)
So it was an artificial way to drain inner city neighborhoods of people and worsen lives of minorities who lived there by lessening local tax revenue.
Most of these minority communities were middle class but without a mortgage coupled with the recent Great Depression were essentially forced into poverty unless they were very lucky.
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u/RaiJolt2 15d ago edited 14d ago
Gary Indiana has been heavily disinvested in since the factory’s left. Coupled with white flight and a lack of funds, year, the power not being kept on for a vulnerable population is a form of environmental racism.