Pushed Out: Displacement Today and Lasting Impacts
This short explainer video helps paint a clearer picture of displacement and its long-term impacts.
READ MORE >October 2017
UC Berkeley Urban Displacement Project, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, and The Great Communities Collaborative, an initiative of The San Francisco Foundation
gentrification and displacement
SB 1000 Toolkit: Planning for Healthy Communities
This toolkit is a guidance document intended for local governments, planners, community-based organizations, and other stakeholders who will be working to develop an Environmental Justice Element or a set of environmental justice policies for their General Plans to meet the requirements of SB 1000.
READ MORE >October 2017
California Environmental Justice Alliance and PlaceWorks Inc.
climate change, social justice
Harnessing High-Speed Rail: How California and Its Cities Can Use Rail to Reshape Their Growth
This report makes a case for high-speed rail as a tool for reshaping economic growth and development in cities such as Fresno and Bakersfield that were bypassed when Interstate 5 was built.
READ MORE >September 2017
SPUR
economic opportunity, transit-oriented development, transportation
The SPARCC Initiative: Fostering Racial Equity, Health, and Climate Resilience in the Built Environment
This article explains the origins of the Strong, Prosperous, and Resilient Communities Challenge (SPARCC), which was originally developed and supported by The Kresge Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The focus of SPARCC is to reverse a series of policy and programmatic decisions that have resulted in decades of disinvestment in low-income communities across the nation.
READ MORE >September 2017
Community Development Investment Review
climate change, public health, social justice
California Green Innovation Index: 2017
This report tracks the state’s progress in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, spurring technological and business innovation, and growing businesses and jobs that enable the transition to a more resource efficient economy. This ninth annual index shows that transportation emissions are growing, and could threaten California’s climate goals.
READ MORE >August 2017
Next10
climate change, economic opportunity, transportation
Worst Case Housing Needs: 2017 Report to Congress
This report looks at the growing number of renters who make at or below 50 percent of the area median income, do not get housing assistance, and pay more than half of their income on rent and/or live in physically unsafe or deficient housing.
READ MORE >August 2017
US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
affordable housing, social justice
Healthy Development without Displacement: Realizing the Vision of Healthy Communities for All
This report looks at what people working on “healthy community” issues — like active transportation, parks, healthy food, planning, public health, healthcare, and more — can do in their own work to improve community conditions without contributing to gentrification and displacement.
READ MORE >August 2017
Prevention Institute
gentrification and displacement, public health, walking and bicycling
An Equity Profile of the Nine-County San Francisco Bay Area
This report presents demographic trends and assesses how well the Bay Area is doing to ensure its diverse residents can participate in the region’s economic vitality, contribute to the readiness of the workforce, and connect to the region’s assets and opportunities.
READ MORE >July 2017
National Equity Atlas
economic opportunity, social justice
Climate Resilient & Equitable Water Systems Capital Scan
This analysis looks at how integrated strategies for investments and grantmaking can accelerate improvements to water infrastructure that advance climate resilience and protect urban low-income communities from flooding.
READ MORE >June 2017
Mission Point Partners and California Environmental Associates
climate change, social justice, water
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
