Houston Streetlights Concentrated Mostly in Black, Hispanic Neighborhoods
Style Magazine Newswire | 2/17/2017, 9:13 a.m.
Source: KPRC
A report from Rice University's Kinder Institute for Urban Research, "Streetlights in the City: Understanding the Distribution of Houston Streetlights," says that of Houston's 173,724 streetlights, most are concentrated in black and Hispanic neighborhoods, as opposed to white neighborhoods, as of August 2015.
The report was prompted by the city's conversion to LED bulbs in streetlights. The report shows a neighborhood with a median income of $40,000 and a poverty rate of 15 percent had one more streetlight for every 3 miles compared with a neighborhood that had the same poverty rate but a median income of only $20,000. . Only future research will gauge whether having more streetlights is, in fact, related to lower levels of crimes.
