WAREHOUSE MORATORIUM

"About one billion square feet of the Inland Empire’s land is occupied by warehouses and about 170 million square feet has been approved or is in construction pending for warehouse operation."

 

The "Region in Crisis" report, written by a coalition of over 60 organizations, advocates for California to declare “a state of emergency and public health crisis in the Inland Empire” and to instate a pause on the area's construction of warehouses.

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“We just want a quality of life that’s better than warehouses, that’s better than the logistics industry taking over our lives.”

 

Read the story I photographed here, written by James Anderson and published on May 26, 2023, for The Frontline Observer, "an independent news organization that prioritizes capturing the voices of ‘frontline’ environmental justice communities in the Inland Empire."