Sustainable Communities Strategies and Conservation: Results from the First Round and Policy Recommendations for Future Rounds
This report looks at how conservation strategies can help avoid sprawl to achieve the greenhouse gas targets and land use goals related to SB 375. The report also showcases conservation best practices in current transportation plans.
READ MORE >January 2016
The Nature Conservancy and Sequoia Riverlands Trust
climate change, open space and parks, transportation
First and Last Mile Connections: New Mobility
This case study examines best practices for new mobility strategies, programs, and models that benefit vulnerable populations. Shared mobility consists of short-term transportation solutions that enable users to access various shared vehicles, bicycles, or other low-speed modes.
READ MORE >January 2016
NRDC
social justice, transportation
Twelve Innovations in State Transportation Policy States Should Consider in 2016
This report outlines 12 state transportation policy solutions either passed legislatively or instituted through administrative action that expand transparency and accountability, boost state and local economies, invest in innovation, save money, and improve safety for the traveling public.
READ MORE >January 2016
Transportation For America (T4America)
transportation
The Scenic Route: Getting Started with Creative Placemaking and Transportation
This online guide is a primer on how transportation infrastructure projects can be building blocks of economic development and can incorporate local arts, culture and heritage so that neighborhoods become distinct and unique places.
READ MORE >January 2016
Transportation For America (T4America)
community development, transportation
Framework for Creating a Smart Growth Economic Development Strategy: A Tool for Small Cities and Towns
This step-by-step guide helps small and mid-sized cities build a place-based economic development strategy.
READ MORE >January 2016
US Environmental Protection Agency
community development, economic opportunity
Does Urban Sprawl Hold Down Upward Mobility?
This study suggests that how sprawling or compact of a place you live in may have a significant impact on your chances to escape poverty.
READ MORE >January 2016
Journal of Landscape and Urban Planning
economic opportunity, social justice, transit-oriented development
The Unintended Consequences of Housing Finance
This paper details how federal housing rules make it very difficult to finance construction or renovation of three-to-four story buildings in many mixed-use, walkable neighborhoods.
READ MORE >January 2016
Regional Plan Association
affordable housing, transit-oriented development
National Study of Bus Rapid Transit Development Outcomes
This first-of-its-kind academic study unveiled by Transportation for America, Smart Growth America, and the National Institute on Transportation and Communities examined existing Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) lines and found strong evidence that these systems can bring a range of economic benefits to American cities at a reasonable cost.
READ MORE >January 2016
National Institute for Transportation and Communities
economic opportunity, transportation
San Francisco Bay Area Carbon Footprint Map
This interactive, first-of-its-kind map shows neighborhood-by-neighborhood carbon consumption in the San Francisco Bay Area.
READ MORE >January 2016
UC Berkeley’s CoolClimate Network and the Bay Area Air Quality Management District
climate change, transit-oriented development
An Opportunity Agenda for Renters: The Case for Simultaneous Investments in Residential Mobility and Low-Income Communities
This report reaffirms that initiatives designed to help people living in high-poverty neighborhoods have not been nearly sufficient to meet the growing demand for affordable housing. As a result, there is a great divide between where low-income people can afford to live and where opportunities exist.
READ MORE >December 2015
Center for American Progress
affordable housing, economic opportunity, gentrification and displacement
Preserving Multifamily Workforce and Affordable Housing: New Approaches for Investing in a Vital National Asset
This report profiles leading efforts to preserve multifamily workforce and affordable housing that harness Below-Market Debt Funds, Private Equity Vehicles, and Real Estate Investment Trusts.
READ MORE >December 2015
Urban Land Institute and Neighbor Works America
affordable housing
California Post-RDA Affordable Housing Developer Survey
This comprehensive report gathers the perspectives of affordable housing builders on how they’ve dealt with the loss of California’s Redevelopment Agencies, which provided California’s largest source of dedicated funding for affordable housing.
READ MORE >December 2015
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
affordable housing
Do Strict Land Use Regulations Make Metropolitan Areas More Segregated by Income?
This study by Michael C. Lens and Paavo Monkkonen from the University of California, Los Angeles, Luskin School of Public Affairs identifies the precise ways that stricter land use regulations shape segregation across entire metropolitan areas.
READ MORE >December 2015
Journal of the American Planning Association
gentrification and displacement, social justice
Preserving Multifamily Workforce and Affordable Housing: New Approaches for Investing in a Vital National Asset
This report from showcases 16 ideas that have raised $3 billion for affordable housing around the country.
READ MORE >December 2015
Urban Land Institute and NeighborWorks America
affordable housing
America’s Rental Housing: Expanding Options for Diverse and Growing Demand
This report documents the rising demand for rental housing in the US, particularly among low- and moderate-income renters. The report looks at what the public and private sectors must do to address the critical need to develop more rental housing options.
READ MORE >December 2015
The Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University
affordable housing
