“Opportunity is also highly skewed across racial groups. Black and Hispanic
households in the region are located almost entirely in the low-opportunity” areas
compared to just “44% of white residents.”
“Key indicators of quality of life, hypertension and asthma cases, occur in lowopportunity areas at a rate three times higher than in the highest opportunity
areas”
To examine further these relationships, AREA mapped Lake County’s levels of poverty
concentrations in Exhibit III-24 on the following page.
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