This article references several reports and highlights on-the-ground efforts to make social equity more central to discussions about bicycle infrastructure and advocacy, especially since people… Read More »
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How Rising Commercial Rents Are Threatening Independent Businesses, and What Cities Are Doing About It
This report examines how high rents are shuttering businesses and stunting entrepreneurship. It also explores six strategies cities are using to create an affordable built… Read More »
Protecting the Most Vulnerable: A Financial Analysis of Cap-and-Trade’s Impact on Households in Disadvantaged Communities Across California
This study looks at how California could more than offset the cap-and-trade compliance costs that are passed on to consumers of electricity, natural gas, and… Read More »
Urban Revival? Not for Most Americans
This article looks at the change in urban living for detailed demographic groups based on Census data analyses and confirms that the American population overall… Read More »
The Affordable Housing Gap Analysis 2016
This report finds that only 31 affordable rental units are available per 100 extremely low-income households in the US.
US Concentrated Poverty in the Wake of the Great Recession
This analysis looks at how and where extreme poverty has increased over time. Following the recession, the number of poor people living in concentrated poverty… Read More »
Household Expenditures and Income
This shows that while this expense has been inching up for everyone, the poorest third of Americans now spend about 50 percent more on all… Read More »
The Consumer Impacts of California’s Low-Carbon Transportation Policies
This report looks at the cumulative impact of California’s climate policies on household transportation costs. It finds that even after accounting for industry compliance costs,… Read More »
The Equity Factor
This free e-book compiles six stories that illuminate how communities are lifting themselves through equitable business models, new collaborations, and inclusive policymaking. Stories include “Black… Read More »
