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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