Author

Sarah Rowan

Sarah Rowan

Sarah Rowan is an Assistant Professor of Medicine-Infectious Disease, University of Colorado Denver.

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. […]