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Jeremy Németh

Jeremy Németh

Jeremy Németh, PhD is an Associate Professor of Urban and Regional Planning and the Director of the PhD program in Geography, Planning, and Design at the University of Colorado Denver. He is currently a Chancellor’s Urban Engaged Scholar, which recognizes “outstanding contributions to the Denver metro region through community-engaged scholarship.”

Redlining decades ago set communities up for greater danger from COVID-19

By: and - May 28, 2020

Vicente Arenas moved to the edge of Denver’s Valverde neighborhood, attracted by low housing prices and proximity to his downtown job just three miles away. The 1-square-mile neighborhood mixes small, ranch-style homes with auto body shops, metal fabricators and industrial supply warehouses, and is hemmed in on its four sides by state highways and interstates. […]