The Success of a System that Fails Grand Rapids Residents

Don Lee
3 min readOct 16, 2019

The 100 year-old 3-Ward System was designed to marginalize resident voice

The last few years we’ve seen articles published identifying that people of color in Grand Rapids are experiencing disproportionate economic disparity. These articles are identifying a problem that exists in the wards because of a system designed to marginalize resident voice. We need to have…

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Don Lee

M.S. Environmental Policy and Management — Environmental policy wonk and hopeful advocate for a clean, peaceful planet.