https://n2v.almanacnews.com/square/print/2019/09/19/uneven-ground


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Uneven Ground

Original post made on Sep 19, 2019

Meet the new industrial pollution, a jobs-housing balance so skewed that it prices people out of their homes, triggers kids' asthma and forces people to pick: grueling commute or substandard housing. What's being done to change this?

Read the full story here Web Link posted Thursday, September 19, 2019, 10:20 AM

Comments

Posted by awatkins
a resident of Woodside: Skywood/Skylonda
on Sep 19, 2019 at 1:48 pm

How does it help to take a reasonably unambiguous phrase like "industrial pollution" and simply redefine it to include "jobs-housing" imbalance? Because no one would read your article without the fake alarm bell in the first line? If that's the problem why not choose a subject that hasn't been beat to death already, rather that butcher the English language?

You write like this and send me spam email asking me to pay to read it? Good Luck.


Posted by bea
a resident of another community
on Sep 19, 2019 at 8:24 pm

bea is a registered user.

This series has been wonderful! Thank you, Kate.
By the way, it would lovely if one of the options for identifying our residential community for purposes of commenting would be East Palo Alto, especially for stories such as this.


Posted by Lynne Bramlett
a resident of Menlo Park: Central Menlo Park
on Sep 19, 2019 at 10:03 pm

Lynne Bramlett is a registered user.

Kate, your series has been impactful and very effectively researched and reported. I appreciate the quality of your work and your commitment to telling the truth, respectfully and compellingly.