Waste-siting creates a self-reinforcing land-value deprivation cycle

Evidence

The land value cycle is vicious, too: once a neighborhood becomes host to industry, land values typically fall or do not increase as quickly as those in purely residential neighborhoods. Thus, a community that initially has low land values because it is home to people of color becomes a community that has low land values because it has a preponderance of industry, which in turn attracts more industry, creating a cumulative effect on land values. As we noted earlier, calling these changes “market driven” naturalizes the underlying racism in the valuation of the land. — Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up, 360

Categorization

• XREF: Pays off chapter 8’s claim that post-siting market dynamics cannot explain current disparities — this is the mechanism running the other direction. — connects to: Toxic waste siting itself drives post-siting white flight and resegregation — Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up: Environmental…, 1132; Misrecognition and political exclusion structurally block poor communities’ participation in environmental decisions — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice:…, 248; Aesthetic poverty afflicts the poor through forced embedding in cloned corporate environments — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1590 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Toxic waste siting itself drives post-siting white flight and resegregation #expands (0.90) — Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up, 1132
• Aesthetic poverty afflicts the poor through forced embedding in cloned corporate environments #exemplifies (0.75) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1590
• Misrecognition and political exclusion structurally block poor communities’ participation in environmental decisions #corroborates (0.72) — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice, 248
• Taxation-driven manure scarcity trapped French peasants in soil exhaustion cycles #corroborates (0.70) — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature, 275