Latino Destinations and Environmental Inequality: Estimated Cancer Risk from Air Toxics in Latino Traditional and New Destinations

Since the 1990s, Latino migration patterns have shifted from traditional destinations to new destinations away from the Mexico border. Scholars note disparities between destinations in housing, crime, and health care, yet no study has examined environmental inequalities. In this article we employ theories of spatial assimilation and environmental inequality to evaluate health risks across Latino destinations by asking the question, is there a difference in estimated cancer risk from air toxics among established, new, and nondestination locations? Using county-level data with spatial lag regression analyses, we find that early new destinations (i.e., counties with significant Latino growth from 1990 to 2000) and recent new destinations (i.e., counties with significant Latino growth from 1990 to 2010) have higher estimated cancer risk from air toxics than established destinations (i.e., counties at or greater than the national average of Latinos in 1990) and nondestinations. The effect remains significant when controlling for various economic indicators

2012 State of Metropolitan Housing Report

This report updates Metropolitan Housing Coalition's nine annual measures of fair and affordable housing for the Louisville, KY Metropolitan Statistical Area: Concentration of Subsidized Housing; Housing Segregation; Renters with Excessive Cost Burden; Production and Rehabilitation of Affordable Housing; Homeownership Rate; Access to Homeownership; Foreclosures; Homelessness; and Community Development Block Grants (CDBG) and HOME Funds.The 2012 State of Metropolitan Housing Report clearly demonstrates Metropolitan Louisville's growing need for safe, fair, and affordable housing. For the first time, the tenth annual State of Metropoltian Housing Report includes data on the number of children experiencing homelessness in the MSA's public school systems; before MHC reported only on Jefferson County Public Schools.The 2012 report also includes a focus topic: vacant properties and their impact on the community as well as current efforts and best practices that to address this issue. Additionally, the report also drills down into the Neighborhood Stabilization Program, a federal program designed to address the issue of vacant properties, and how it was used in Louisville

Ultimate Acceptability, Cultural Bias, and an American Indian World : reflections on Nelson Goodman

Nelson Goodman maintains that there is a plurality of internally consistent, equally privileged, well-made actual worlds constructed through the use of very special symbol systems-right or ultimately acceptable world versions. Using evidence from American Indian traditions, I will argue that Goodman's criteria for ultimately acceptability are culturally biased against any non-Western world version-especially a Native version. I will then offer a culturally sensitive interpretation of Goodman's criteria for ultimate acceptability that an American Indian world version satisfies, and so is numbered among the internally consistent, equally privileged, well-made actual worlds.Nelson Goodman sostiene que hay una pluralidad de mundos internamente consistentes, igualmente privilegiados, bien construidos y reales que se erigen mediante el uso de sistemas simbólicos muy especiales, a saber, versiones de mundo correctas o en última instancia aceptables. Utilizando como evidencia algunas tradiciones de los indios americanos, argumentaré que los criterios de Goodman para la aceptabilidad última están culturalmente sesgados en detrimento de cualquier versión del mundo no occidental, en particular, una versión nativa. Ofreceré entonces una interpretación culturalmente sensible de los criterios de Goodman para la aceptabilidad última satisfechos por una versión del mundo de los indios americanos, de modo que se cuente entre los mundos internamente consistentes, igualmente privilegiados, bien construidos y reales