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 »
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 »
Sustainable Communities Strategies and Conservation
This report looks at the potential of SB 375 to transform land use in California and includes a survey of conservation measures in existing Sustainable… Read More »
Toward a Sustainable Future: Is Southern California on Track?
In 2012, the Southern California Association of Governments adopted its first Sustainable Communities Strategy as required by state law SB 375. This report assesses the region’s progress… 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 »
Smart Mobility for Smart Growth: Implementing SB 743 and Complete Streets in San Diego
In 2013, California adopted SB 743, a landmark law that modified the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) so that transportation projects must now be evaluated… 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 »
