‘Cutting off access to opportunity’: State, federal programs look to help communities divided by highways.

3.3bn in grants to reconnect 132 communities in the US have been announced by the Biden-Harris administration. The funds are aimed at communities that were once divided by transportation infrastructure, giving them better access to schools, jobs, medical offices, and places of worship. The Reconnecting Communities Pilot and Neighborhood Access and Equity programs are funded by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and Inflation Reduction Act.

March 13, 2024
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