For example, people of color are still more likely to live in neighborhoods that are not conducive to sleep, areas experts sometimes refer to as “sleep deserts.”

Oh fuck off. Muh X desert.

Places with higher pollution are often close to highways and have fewer trees and sidewalks–attributes that allow people to exercise safely.

It ain't the lack of trees and sidewalks making exercise dangerous in brown neighborhoods.

In many Somali homes in the Twin Cities, smoke detectors with low batteries beep around the clock.

it’s the landlord’s responsibility to “fix” them

Most leases don't cover maintenance items like batteries or filters. That said, I know a few landlords that will throw in furnace filters for free, otherwise rentoids will use the same filter indefinitely until the HVAC system chokes to death on years of dust.

I doubt a landlord will willingly enter a Somali home to do anything, though, for obvious reasons.