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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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