New Climate for Transportation: How the City of San Diego and SANDAG Must Improve Transportation to Meet Climate Goals
Projections by the San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG) show that it is mathematically impossible for the City of San Diego to achieve its transit and active transportation goals with the transportation network SANDAG is currently planning. This report details how SANDAG could shift its transportation in order to meet climate goals.
READ MORE >October 2015
Circulate San Diego and the Climate Action Campaign
climate change, transportation, walking and bicycling
Projecting Trends in Severely Cost-Burdened Renters: 2015-2025
This white paper projects how many households would be severely rent burdened by 2025 given demographic trends and differing assumptions about real changes in income and rent levels.
READ MORE >October 2015
Enterprise Community Partners and the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies
affordable housing, gentrification and displacement
Returns on Resilience: The Business Case
This report looks at how “building for resilience” to protect buildings and sites from increasing climate change risks makes business sense.
READ MORE >October 2015
Urban Land Institute
climate change, economic opportunity
Inclusionary Housing: Creating and Maintaining Equitable Communities
This study makes the case for well-timed, thoughtful use of inclusionary zoning as a tool to support diverse, affordable communities.
READ MORE >September 2015
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
affordable housing, gentrification and displacement, social justice
Moving California Forward: How Smart Growth Can Help California Reach Its 2030 Climate Target While Creating Economic and Environmental Co-Benefits
This study shows that implementation of smart land use policy, in combination with technological advances in the energy sector, will be critical for the state to achieve its ambitious 2030 decarbonization target.
READ MORE >September 2015
Energy Innovation and Calthorpe Analytics
climate change, economic opportunity, transit-oriented development
Promoting Opportunity through Equitable Transit-Oriented Development (eTOD): Barriers to Success and Best Practices for Implementation
This report shows how equitable transit-oriented development can bring a range of benefits to the neighborhood and broader regional economy, the environment, municipal finances, public health, and transportation system performance.
READ MORE >September 2015
Enterprise Community Partners
economic opportunity, social justice, transit-oriented development
What If California’s Drought Continues?
This study looks at how if the drought continues over the next few years, the greatest toll will be on small rural communities dependent on well-water and on wetlands and wildlife.
READ MORE >September 2015
Public Policy Institute of California
water
Equity in Building Resilience in Adaptation Planning
The NAACP released a set of resilience indicators to guide communities toward integrating an equity lens as they design climate adaptation plans so that protection is provided for the most vulnerable and marginalized people.
READ MORE >January 2015
NAACP
climate change, social justice
