Color Farm Impact · The Dharma Project
The Suppression Weight · Fifth Ward, Houston
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Dharma verdict
69–79. Suppressed, not low.
Recommendation: invest. A gap of +40 held down by sourced, addressable conditions. The gap is the return. (Gap +40)
What's holding the 34 down
Environmental burden — creosote plume & industrial siting
+12.4
Economic suppression
+9.0
Highway severance & disinvestment
+5.6
Health outcome gap
+8.4
Gentrification pressure / under-captured land value
+4.3
CC 34 + uplift +40LV 69–79
Current Conditions 34 + sourced suppression +40 = Latent Value 69–79. Click any factor to see the receipt.
Capital × Community Trust
Amber dot = Fifth Ward, Houston · dot size = latent gap (LV − CC) · click any dot to open its report.
Trust is a core axis of this thesis, not a footnote. High capital with low trust is exactly the pattern the Suppression Weight is built to surface — the Dharma Zone is where capital and trust move together.
LATENTlow capital · high trust
Trust is high but capital hasn’t arrived yet — the upside the thesis chases.
DHARMA ZONEhigh capital · high trust
Capital and community trust move together — the healthy target state.
SUPPRESSEDlow capital · low trust
Both capital and trust are held down — the starting condition suppression creates.
EXTRACTIVEhigh capital · low trust
Money is flowing in but the community doesn’t trust it — value is pulled out, not built.
v1 placeholder calibration (rho=0.80, ceiling=100). No headlineBand pinned (no external pitch value supplied); the engine derives the band from mean confidence. quadrant.capital/trust are a qualitative placement, refine with the content owner. Gentrification pressure near downtown is modeled as suppressed-incumbent burden (under-captured land value, `displacement` factor) rather than as a standalone anomaly. Fifth Ward's historic Frenchtown Creole enclave and its cultural/musical lineage (a birthplace of Houston zydeco culture) are documented context for the neighborhood's disinvestment arc but are not shipped as their own quantifiable factor (see kill-rule notes).