RabachK VtP: Are we all Flint?

In this case, the toxicity isn’t necessarily the chemicals themselves, but the imposed mismanagement from a structural and hierarchical level.  AND Fennel argues the real toxicity is the complete misunderstanding of the Flint Crisis as solely a water crisis. What about the role of “financially toxic housing?” To think of water infrastructures as separate, as a public good, and housing infrastructures as private and outside the notion of a public good, is the toxicity. And this gets at why Fennel argues the Flint water crisis caught national news in ways that lead poisoning in homes has not. In terms of placement, then, there’s a public vs. private divide (at least an imagined one) when it comes to thinking about toxicity and the way its managed.