USA Today, January 25, 2022, What’s the price of community? Infrastructure law devotes $1 billion to reconnect neighborhoods split by interstates
President Joe Biden’s $1.2 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act includes $1 billion to reconnect minority neighborhoods…Experts and advocates told USA TODAY more resources are needed despite the historic investment.
“When you look at the decades of compounded harm in these communities, the physical removal of a highway or the physical transformation of the highway alone simply won’t be enough,” said New York University law professor Deborah Archer.
The money will be distributed to states through block grants, and communities will lead the way on how to use the money, according to the Biden administration.
