You can buy an air quality sensor to put in your own home, but they can be pricey, ranging from $100 to 300. Local groups are working to fill that gap, especially as smoke from wildfires in Northern California and Oregon continue to impact air quality.
"We had the opportunity to do these community input meetings, with particularly SRO tenants -- single room occupancy tenants -- that live in the Tenderloin/Mission District, and also throughout eastern San Francisco and ask them where they would like these air quality sensors cited, so that then they would know whether it's safe to go outside or not," said Brightline Defense Executive Director Eddie Ahn.
"Air quality has gotten significantly worse, unfortunately, particularly in eastern San Francisco, where there's a dearth of air quality sensors -- sensors for low-income households," Ahn said. "And so, that's been a challenge to see that we have seen essentially. The air quality readings take a big dip, and that we've seen the air quality readings go to the red zone, meaning that people should stay indoors.
"If you look at the air quality map, particularly with purple air sensors, you can see there is a discrepancy of where the air sensors are being deployed, and they are in more affluent neighborhoods," Executive Director Lorena Castillo said. "And so typically where the air quality is the worst is where there is a huge lack of sensors."
"They can make informed decisions about whether or not they want to send their kids to school, or whether or not they want to take that walk, at peak hours, where the air quality is really bad," Castillo said.
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