Next to the environmental and financial dimension of the term ‘resilience’, there is also a social one. Image source: Shutterstock (#647137690) pictures Boston.
Resilient Boston, an initiative to fight systematic racism, and make the city more resilient in the process is now further supported by Imagine Boston 2030, a comprehensive development plan that intersects with the racial equity strategy.
The new strategy is the result of two years of work by the Mayor’s Office of Resilience and Racial Equity and 100 Resilient Cities, and is perceived as direly needed as racial discrepancies persist in Boston. For example, median household incomes for white Bostonians are more than double those of their fellow black, Latino, and Asian citizens, the Resilient Boston report reveals. “This resilience strategy launch is us as a city opening our throat to sing. It is beginning destroying the system and rebuilding it,” exclaims Meggie Noel.
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