Ten years later, it's clear that rebuilding from Superstorm Sandy followed a familiar pattern: Recovery money often comes last to, and has the weakest impact in, communities of color.
Public spending after disasters has led to increased inequality, said Junia Howell, a sociologist at the University of Illinois in Chicago who researches race, housing and disasters.
What’s clear, community board leader Moise and others say, is that Edgemere has never gotten its fair share. Edgemere and other communities on the eastern end of the Rockaways became dumping grounds for the city’s poorest residents, pushed out across a wide bay to the very end of the land, a 70-minute subway ride from Manhattan.
The city says it’s working to bring change to Edgemere. Earlier this year, it finalized a development plan dubbed “Resilient Edgemere.” Every member of the community board urged the City Council and mayor to reject it. But the community didn’t have the political clout to stop it.
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