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Food Insecurity http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/21/study-1-in-5-chicagoans-a_n_974327.html

“Food insecurity is defined, on the less extreme end, as reports of reduced quality, variety or desirability of diet. One exhibiting very low food security would report disrupted eating patterns and reduced food intake.”

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TENT CITY DISPLACEMENT http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-uptown-tent-city-residents-displaced-met-20170917-story.html

Here’s an article that’s fairly recent. In short, the city approved the renovation of the location of “tent city” which resides under viaduct’s in the city’s northeast side close to the lake. The decision to renovate that specific area then forces those living in tents there, to relocate or seek homeless shelters. This does not sit well with those who have built a sense of community there. It’s not a nice read, but it’s a good to be aware of these things. Also, the comments on the article are bogus.

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Article #2, post 2

https://ourfuture.org/20150827/ten-years-after-katrina-poor-and-black-people-still-left-behind

In this article, author Terrence Heath discusses the issues that plague New Orleans after hurricane Katrina, and the following decade. In conjunction with the first article, these disaster zones that are attributed to hurricanes can severely impact low income people and in many cases relocate them, or as the case was for many in New Orleans; dislocate them. The facts I find particularly interesting about Terrence’s article was how the city went about rebuilding itself. Through gentrification, school and teacher dispersing, and helping the rich get richer, New Orleans has now become even wealthier and better for some, and those who met bare minimum before hurricane Katrina, have since gone unnoticed, and/or vanished.

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Article #1 , post 1

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/hurricane-harvey-and-public-and-private-disaster-in-houston

This is one of the article’s I talked about in class. The staff writer for The New Yorker discusses her thoughts about hurricane Harvey and the impact it will have considering the geography of the city of Houston. The city resemble’s a wheel, with spoke-like highways directing to the middle of the city. I thought this article was important, because Houston is the fourth largest city in the United States. The devastation hurricane Harvey had on people’s homes is costly to many and will take some people years to recover from this disaster. For some, they have lost all of their belongings, and homelessness is a serious threat to them.

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