Color Farm Impact · The Dharma Project
The Suppression Weight · North Birmingham
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Dharma verdict
70–80. Suppressed, not low.
Recommendation: invest. A gap of +41 held down by sourced, addressable conditions. The gap is the return. (Gap +41)
What's holding the 34 down
Superfund contamination & blocked cleanup
+12.4
Health outcome gap
+9.2
Economic suppression & food apartheid
+9.8
Redlining legacy & deindustrialization
+6.0
Data undercount (low)
+3.4
CC 34 + uplift +41LV 70–80
Current Conditions 34 + sourced suppression +41 = Latent Value 70–80. Click any factor to see the receipt.
Capital × Community Trust
Amber dot = North Birmingham · 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. cc=34 reflects an income ratio (42.0-44.2% of Jefferson County's median) comparable in severity to Bankhead's 39% metro ratio, compounded by a tract-level poverty rate as high as 59.1% (Tract 7) — more severe than any other income/poverty figure cited in the seeded set to date — and by the uniquely strong evidentiary form of the `env` factor: not an inferred pollution-percentile score, but a live EPA site profile plus a federal jury's own criminal findings that a company and its law firm intentionally worked to block this specific community's cleanup. quadrant.capital/trust are a qualitative placement, refine with the content owner. EJScreen (ejscreen.epa.gov) did not resolve in this research environment — consistent with the West Oakland/Richmond/Port Arthur/Africatown precedent's note that epa.gov subdomains are inconsistently reachable — so no EJScreen-specific percentile figure is cited; the environmental factor instead rests on EPA's own live Superfund site profile (a first-party EPA source distinct from EJScreen) plus the adjudicated bribery-scheme facts.