Thursday, the city of
Ann Arbor and the Ann
Arbor
District
Library
held a forum at the library
on race and class equity
in
Washtenaw
County
as the final event of its
annual
sustainability
series. Approximately 100
students and community
members
attended
the
event.
Teresa
Gillotti,
Washtenaw
County
Office of Community and
Economic
Development
director, emphasized the
difficulty of the commute
for much of the city’s Black
population because of their
housing locations.
“The African-American
population
is
located
primarily on the East side
near Ypsilanti, but most of
the new jobs being created
are on the West side,”
Gillotti said. “Say you live
on the East side and want to
get to some of the new jobs
on the East side but don’t
own a car — you would
need to spend around an
hour one way to get there
by bus.”
Gillotti then discussed
the
shortcoming
in
transportation’s impact in
the business sector.
“We’re hearing all the
time from businesses in
Ann Arbor that they can’t
find
enough
workers,”
Gillotti said. “We know
that there is a divide and
that we can’t get the talent
where it needs to be.”
Additionally,
Gillotti
touched on the declining
number
of
affordable
housing units in the Ann
Arbor area. Since 2015,
Gillotti said 50 affordable
housing units have been
added in Ann Arbor, but
zero have been added in
Pittsfield
through
non-
profit housing developers.
Through
private
developers, 70 affordable
housing units have been
added
since
2000,
Gillotti said.
However,
Gillioti
contrasted
these
additions by sharing
that
800
affordable
housing
units
have
been lost in the last
18 months across the
county.
LSA
sophomore
Carolyn Wu said she
appreciated the wide
diversity of audience
experiences
at
the
event.
“I really liked the
event,” Wu said. “I’m
currently working at
the
Ecology
Center
and I think that it’s
really cool to see the
conversation
that
we talk about in the
classrooms be applied
to a more community
setting with a larger
variety of ages and
backgrounds.”
Reflecting
on
the
challenges facing the
Black community in
regards to commuting,
Wu
said
there
is
a
need
for
better
public
transportation.
“I think (the challenges)
really show the importance
of
having
a
public
transportation system that
is efficient and on time,”
Wu said. “Additionally, it’s
a really important that we
also build public transport
between
Washtenaw
County
and
Wayne
County.”
Rackham
student
Amanda
Farthing,
who
studies sustainability and
the environment, said she
enjoyed
looking
at
the
event’s
main
discussion
points
through
an
intersectional lens.
“I
think
it’s
really
awesome that they post
these events that anyone
in
the
community
can
come to and make all these
connections
between
these
really
important
topics that all tie into
sustainability,”
Farthing
said. “I think these issues
of race, housing, energy
justice and transportation
are all topics that people
talk about separately really
often, but having them tied
together in this educational
forum is really valuable.”
Farthing
said
maps
at
the
event
outlining
where Black residents in
Washtenaw
County
live
and where the jobs are
resonated with her.
“I’m new to Ann Arbor, so
it was nice to see the maps
that they put up for the
income distributions and
think about that in relation
to people’s daily commutes
to work,” Farthing said.
“That was very impactful
and a very real day-to-day
representation of some of
the topics that they talk
about. That some people,
due to where housing is
and where jobs are located,
are unable to access higher
paying jobs.”
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