For Claudia Canchola, a mono-lingual Spanish speaker originally from Mexico, her apartment in Cherryland should have been a place of comfort. She envisioned it as a space where she could cook meals…
Claudia Canchola’s apartment in Cherryland should have been a place of comfort. She envisioned it as a space where she could cook meals for her husband and three young children, spend time together as a family and create a home.
In the growing statewide conversation about “environmental injustice” — a phenomenon in which poor and marginalized communities face a disproportionate effect of pollution and other unfair aspects of urban planning — Canchola’s experience may not be the first thing that comes to mind. “I was very, very frustrated,” Canchola, who came to California from Mexico, said in an interview. “I felt desperate.”
“Poor and working-class people of color have the least access to healthy and clean environments,” Ruiz said, an associate professor in the department of Chicano and Chicana studies at Cal State Northridge. “It’s totally about the built environment and the decisions that policymakers have made at the state level, and the local city level, and the legacy of those decisions.”
In response, jurisdictions across the Bay Area have begun drafting plans to correct these inequities. Santa Clara County, the city and county of San Francisco, Hayward and San Leandro have all either begun or recently completed some form of environmental justice plans.
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