WANT TO BUILD A STRONG TOWN?

 MAKE IT WORK FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES

There has been a lot of attention paid to environmental justice—reversing the ills urban planning created when poor, predominantly Black neighborhoods were razed for highways or other projects, erasing home ownership and wealth. 

Environmental justice must also address America’s history of excluding people with disabilities from public pools, jury boxes, schools, and dozens of other basic government facilities.

This discrimination lasted well into the end of the 20th century.