The Journal News, July 29, 2020: Yonkers sees higher temps in areas impacted by discriminatory housing practice: Study
Higher temperatures in many of Yonkers’ minority communities overlap with neighborhoods cordoned off through a discriminatory housing practice known as redlining, according to a preliminary study.
With the exception of areas such as malls or major roadways, the study by Groundwork Hudson Valley found that neighborhoods of Glenwood, LaMartine Heights, Radford, Old 7th Ward and Nodine Hill as having higher median temperatures from 2013-2019.
Those hot areas have a higher percentage of poverty, large Black and Latino populations — and they are mainly in historically redlined communities, the study said.
