California’s Housing Future: Challenges and Opportunities
This report outlines California’s housing challenges and potential housing affordability solutions. It provides the data and analysis to describe the problem and frame the discussion surrounding solutions.
READ MORE >January 2017
from Governor Jerry Brown; the California Business, Consumer, and Housing Department; and the California Housing and Community Development Department
affordable housing
California’s San Joaquin Valley: A Region and Its Children Under Stress
This report documents racial and health inequities and the effects that they have on the lives and life chances of families raising children in the San Joaquin Valley.
READ MORE >January 2017
Sierra Health Foundation and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation
public health, social justice
Physical Activity: Health Benefits, the Role of the Built Environment, and Impacts of Air Pollution
This paper summarizes and updates the findings of the Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans Committee Report, commissioned by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. It concludes by focusing on areas of physical activity and health research which are pertinent to the California Air Resources Board’s (ARB) mission to protect and promote public health by reducing air pollution exposure.
READ MORE >December 2016
California Air Resources Board (ARB)
public health
Investing in Mobility and Equity: Strengthening California’s Low Carbon Transit Operating Program
This looks at the first two years of California’s Low Carbon Transit Operating Program (LCTOP). The report assesses whether and how transit service and capital projects funded by the LCTOP meet the goals of the program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and enhance transit mobility, particularly for residents of disadvantaged communities and low-income populations.
READ MORE >October 2016
Public Advocates & TransForm
climate change, economic opportunity, transit-oriented development
Leading the Way: Policies and Practices for Sustainable Communities Strategies
This report for advocates and planners presents some of the best strategies that regions around California have used in developing Sustainable Communities Strategies, including public engagement, funding, planning land-use scenarios, and more.
READ MORE >October 2016
ClimatePlan
climate change, community development, transit-oriented development
Scaling Solutions: Strategies for Building Effective Philanthropy Partnerships
This guide for navigating public-philanthropic partnerships draws on US Housing and Urban Development’s place-based programs which have benefitted from the active engagement of philanthropic partners. These partners are supporting neighborhood revitalization efforts, building multi-stakeholder collaborative and peer networks, and providing technical assistance to help low-capacity communities compete for federal grants and attract private investment.
READ MORE >September 2016
US Department of Housing and Urban Development
community development, economic opportunity, social justice
Health Impact Assessment Toolkit for Planners
This toolkit from the American Planning Association provides guidance on each of the six Health Impact Assessment steps to guide planners through the process of integrating public health considerations into planning.
READ MORE >September 2016
American Planning Association
public health, transit-oriented development
A Preliminary Environmental Equity Assessment of California’s Cap-and-Trade Program
A new report from researchers at the USC Dornsife Program for Environmental and Regional Equity uses data from the California Environmental Protection Agency and the US Census to assess inequalities in the location of greenhouse gas-emitting facilities, as well as the amount of greenhouse gases and particulate matter emitted by facilities regulated under cap-and-trade.
READ MORE >September 2016
University of Southern California
climate change, social justice
Fossil-Free Bay Area
This report explores three big ideas for action by local governments, regional agencies, utilities, and the private sector to significantly reduce fossil fuel use in the Bay Area region.
READ MORE >September 2016
SPUR
climate change
Everybody Walk! Collaborative Social Justice Toolkit
This compilation of resources and materials from America Walks aims to provide organizations and individuals working within the walking movement with resources and guides to help them achieve objectives related to fostering equity, fairness, and justice within communities.
READ MORE >September 2016
America Walks
public health, social justice, walking and bicycling
Measuring What We Value: Prioritizing Public Health to Build Prosperous Regions
This new package of case studies released by Transportation for America, in partnership with the American Public Health Association, showcases a range of strategies that metropolitan area planning agencies can use to strengthen the local economy, improve public health outcomes for all of their residents, promote social equity, and better protect the environment.
READ MORE >September 2016
Transportation for America
community development, economic opportunity
Common Claims about Proposition 13
This report from the California Legislative Analyst’s Office looks at the impacts of Prop 13, the California law passed in 1978 that caps annual property tax increases, on housing production, prices, and wealth accumulation.
READ MORE >September 2016
California Legislative Analyst’s Office
affordable housing, community development, economic opportunity
Can US Cities Compensate for Curbing Sprawl by Growing Denser?
This new analysis of American Community Survey data by Issi Romem, the chief economist at the platform BuildZoom, shows that metropolitan areas that have resisted sprawl (like Portland, which has an urban growth boundary, or San Francisco, which is hemmed in geographically) haven’t built much housing – or nearly as much housing as needed.
READ MORE >September 2016
BuildZoom
community development, transit-oriented development
Autonomous Vehicles: Hype and Potential
This piece, authored by the well-known urbanist Peter Calthorpe and by Jerry Walters of Fehr & Peers, looks at how autonomous vehicles may shape our cities and lifestyles in the future, and also looks at the unintended consequences of transportation technology moving in this direction.
READ MORE >September 2016
Public Square
transportation
Advancing Equity in California Climate Policy: A New Social Contract for a Low-Carbon Transition
This report sets out to guide the ongoing climate policy conversation in the state by identifying ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions while ensuring that low-income and working class people in California do not bear the brunt of the costs and are included in the benefits of the state’s transition to a low-carbon economy.
READ MORE >September 2016
University of Southern California and the University of California Berkeley
clean energy, climate change, economic opportunity, social justice
