An Equitable Water Future: A National Briefing Paper
This report explores the impacts of water management on disadvantaged communities, and the opportunities to build more equitable water systems.
READ MORE >June 2017
US Water Alliance
social justice, water
The Best Complete Streets Policies of 2016
This report is the yearly analysis of newly passed Complete Streets policies, including recognition of the country’ most comprehensive ones.
READ MORE >June 2017
Smart Growth America and the National Complete Streets Coalition
transit-oriented development, walking and bicycling
Three Revolutions in Urban Transportation
This report compares the environmental and fiscal impacts of three scenarios involving new transportation technology.
READ MORE >May 2017
UC Davis and the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy
clean energy, climate change, transportation
Harvesting the Value of Water: Stormwater, Green Infrastructure, and Real Estate
This report looks at how water management mechanisms using green infrastructure can create value for real estate projects by improving operational efficiency as well as serving as an attractive amenity.
READ MORE >May 2017
Urban Land Institute
economic opportunity, water
Vision Zero Equity Strategies for Practitioners
This case study highlights context-sensitive equity strategies to achieve traffic safety, which is especially important considering low-income communities and communities of color carry a disproportionate burden of traffic-related injuries and fatalities.
READ MORE >May 2017
Vision Zero Network
social justice, walking and bicycling
Building Resilient States: Profiles in Action
This report highlights local, regional, and statewide efforts to build more resilient communities from the ground up, with California as one of the featured examples.
READ MORE >May 2017
Governor’s Institute on Community Design
climate change, community development, transportation
Affordable Housing Needs Analysis for California Counties
This is the annual county-by-county analyses of affordable housing shortfalls in counties across the state. The range of reports offer concrete steps that state and local representatives should take immediately to help lessen the burden on low-income renters.
READ MORE >May 2017
California Housing Partnership Corporation
affordable housing
MovingCalifornia.org Shows Cap-and-Trade Investments Across State
This website showcases how proceeds from the cap-and-trade program are funding a wide variety of ultra-clean and zero-emission trucks, buses, cars and low-carbon transportation projects throughout the state.
READ MORE >May 2017
California Air Resources Board
clean energy, climate change, transportation
Displacement in San Mateo County, California: Consequences for Housing, Neighborhoods, Quality of Life, and Health
This brief is part of a research and action initiative to understand the nature of gentrification and displacement in the Bay Area. It is authored by UC Berkeley in collaboration with researchers at UCLA, community based organizations, regional planning agencies and the California Air Resources Board.
READ MORE >May 2017
UC Berkeley
affordable housing, gentrification and displacement
Guide to Equitable, Community-Driven Climate Preparedness Planning
This resource provides guidance to local governments in designing and implementing a more inclusive, equitable planning process.
READ MORE >May 2017
Urban Sustainability Directors Network
climate change, community development, social justice
Metrics for Planning Healthy Communities
This report includes a set of Healthy Planning Metrics that can be used to assess, measure, monitor and report progress toward healthy planning goals.
READ MORE >May 2017
American Planning Association
public health, social justice, transit-oriented development
Beyond Diversity: A Roadmap to Building an Inclusive Organization
This report looks at the readiness, recruitment, and retention practices of environmental NGOs and foundations in regards to diversity, as well as presents relevant research from diversity studies outside the environmental movement.
READ MORE >May 2017
Green 2.0
social justice
Access: A Community Development Podcast from the Federal Reserve
This podcast highlights successful examples of organizations advancing opportunity for lower-income communities.
READ MORE >May 2017
The Community Development Departments of the Federal Reserve System
community development, social justice
Housing and Transportation: Building the Bay Area’s Vibrant, Sustainable, and Affordable Future Together
This report, “On Track Together,” offers solutions for how the Bay Area can take a regional approach to address its housing needs.
READ MORE >May 2017
Non-Profit Housing Association of Northern California
affordable housing
The Bay Area Greenprint
This tool reveals the multiple benefits of natural and agricultural lands, empowering users to inform land use decisions with better data. The Bay Area Greenprint identifies, maps, and measures the values that natural resources contribute to the ecosystem, the economy, and the local and regional community.
READ MORE >May 2017
The Nature Conservancy, Bay Area Open Space Council, American Farmland Trust, Greenbelt Alliance, and GreenInfo Network
open space and parks
