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Comment 4 for Public Workshops on Investment of Cap-and-Trade Auction Proceeds to Benefit Disadvantaged Communities (sb-535-guidance-ws) - 1st Workshop.
First Name: Matthew
Last Name: Glesne
Email Address: matthew.glesne@lacity.org
Affiliation: Los Angeles -Department of City Planning
Subject: definition of poverty
Comment:
The Federal Government has recently come up with what many believe to be a superior measurement of poverty compared to the standard version, which the ARB includes in its disadvantaged communities draft methodology through the use of Cal-EnviroScreen. The new Census Supplemental Poverty Measure looks much more closely at both income supports and overall costs to try to get a better picture of the actual resources available to households. Work in California by the PPIC and CPI (the California Poverty Measure) has shown how the this new methodology forces us to change our thinking about disadvantaged communities in the State. It actually "flips the poverty map" towards high-cost coastal communities, reflecting the reality that housing costs play a huge role in limiting discretionary income. Low-income households in high costs communities have been shown to be statistically more disadvantaged than those with the same incomes in low cost areas. This important fact needs to be included in the final methodology.
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Date and Time Comment Was Submitted: 2014-08-27 09:27:12
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