Why The Richest And Poorest Towns in America Sit 10 Minutes Apart | Living IN CT
Episode 4 — Why the richest and poorest towns in America sit 10 minutes apart Living IN CT documentary ▪️Time: 0:00 You’ve probably driven through Connecticut and never thought twice about it (ex. greenwich connecticut, bridgeport connecticut ) ▪️Time: 0:09 You’re driving through Connecticut. In twenty minutes, you can move from one of the wealthiest zip codes on Earth to one of the poorest cities in America. The road doesn’t change. The trees don’t change. Only the world on either side of it does. ▪️Time: 0:28 Connecticut is the wealthiest state in America by per capita income. It is also one of the most economically divided. Those two facts are not unrelated. They are the result of specific decisions, made over nearly a century, that most people who live here were never told about. It starts in the 1930s. The federal government creates a program to stabilize the housing market — and in doing so, it draws color-coded maps of American cities. Green neighborhoods are rated “best.” Red neighborhoods are rated “hazardous.” In Connecticut, New Haven, Hartford, and Bridgeport are divided up by these maps. Entire neighborhoods get the red — particularly those with lower incomes and older housing stock. ▪️Time: 01:05 Banks follow the maps. Families in red zones can’t get mortgages. Without mortgages, they can’t buy homes. Without homes, they can’t build equity. Without equity, they can’t move. The red line on the map becomes a wall that’s invisible but completely real. ▪️Time: 01:27 By the 1950s, Connecticut’s suburbs join a different kind of competition — competing to keep certain people out. Minimum lot sizes get set so high that no one without serious money can build there. Apartment buildings are banned. Multi-family housing is banned. The policy never says who it’s designed to exclude. It doesn’t have to. ▪️Time: 02:02 While Greenwich was accumulating the highest per capita income of any town in America, Bridgeport — twelve miles away — was becoming one of the most impoverished cities in the country. Same Fairfield County. Same decade. Different set of rules applied to different people. That gap didn’t happen on its own. It was built — decision by decision, map by map, zoning meeting by zoning meeting. And it’s still there. ▪️Time: 02:26 Connecticut remains one of the most economically divided states in the country. The cities marked hazardous on those 1930s maps are still the poorest cities in Connecticut today. ▪️Time: 02:38 If you live in Connecticut, you’ve taken that drive. Twenty minutes from Greenwich to Bridgeport. You’ve probably never thought about why the two worlds look so different. Now you know it wasn’t geography. It wasn’t chance. It was a decision. And it’s one Connecticut is still having an argument about how to undo. ______________________________________________________________________
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