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
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
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
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
Six Foundations for Building Community Resilience
This report describes how communities can approach the full scope of the 21st century’s challenges equitably and sustainably. The report draws on some of the most compelling thinking about resilience from academia, advocacy, and activism. Resilience is the ability of a system (like a community) to absorb disturbance and still retain basic function and structure.
READ MORE >December 2015
Post Carbon Institute
climate change, social justice
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
A Global High Shift Cycling Scenario: The Potential for Dramatically Increasing Bicycle and E-bike Use in Cities Around the World, with Estimated Energy, CO2, and Cost Impacts
This study finds that bicycles and electric bicycles could help reduce carbon emissions from urban transportation by 11 percent.
READ MORE >November 2015
Institute for Transportation & Development Policy and UC Davis Institute of Transportation Studies
climate change, walking and bicycling
Hidden in Plain Sight: Why California’s Economically Challenged Cities Matter
Although California’s unemployment rate has fallen, some cities have prospered and some cities have not. As a result, California has the highest concentration of economically challenged cities in the nation according to this report. This report illustrates why it is important for elected officials and policymakers to work with the leadership in these cities to make the most of resources that can improve their economies and their residents’ quality of life.
READ MORE >November 2015
National Resource Network
economic opportunity
Connecting Housing, Transportation, and Education to Expand Opportunity
This paper discusses how to create more places where low- or moderate- income families can afford a suitable home in a transit-rich neighborhood with good schools. Amy Kenyon (Ford Foundation), Judith Bell (The San Francisco Foundation) and others contributed.
READ MORE >November 2015
Center for Cities + Schools in partnership with Enterprise, Mile High Connects, the National Housing Conference, and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)
affordable housing, social justice, transit-oriented development
7 Paths to Development That Bring Neighborhoods Wealth, Not Gentrification
This article describes a framework for building community wealth, which includes seven key drivers that work together to create an inclusive, sustainable community economy where all can prosper, especially low-income families, people of color, and those with barriers to employment.
READ MORE >November 2015
Cities Building Community Wealth
community development, economic opportunity, gentrification and displacement
California Innovation and Meeting the Water Challenge
This report looks at California’s water usage trends and then focuses on innovation in the water industry and how it can shape the future of water management.
READ MORE >November 2015
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