DeShaun Craddock
Life expectancy in Brownsville, Brooklyn (above) is about 11 years shorter than in Tribeca or Murray Hill.
Health outcomes–and things that depend on them like school performance–are shaped by housing quality. Housing quality is shaped by segregation. And segregation reflects policies that separated Americans by race.
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