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 Lives Matter Policy Agenda Looks a Lot Like a Playbook for Inclusive Cities,” “Will Urban Renewal Ever End?” and more.
READ MORE >September 2016
Next City
community development, economic opportunity, social justice
Housing Development Toolkit
The White House published a report looking at the role that zoning and other land use regulations have in increasing housing prices. The report includes a 10-point toolkit for how cities can increase housing supply by modernizing zoning codes, changing density limits, allowing accessory dwelling units, streamlining approval processes, and more.
READ MORE >September 2016
The White House
affordable housing, community development, gentrification and displacement
Improving Population Health by Working with Communities: Action Guide 3.0
The Action Guide is a framework to help multi-sector groups work together to improve population health in communities by addressing ten interrelated elements for success and by using related resources. Like a “how-to” manual, the Action Guide is organized by these ten elements and contains definitions, recommendations, practical examples, and a range of resources to help communities achieve their shared goals and make lasting improvements in population health.
READ MORE >August 2016
National Quality Forum
Mapping Neighborhood Change in Los Angeles County
As part of a joint project with UC Berkeley, researchers at UCLA have created an interactive mapping tool that shows where gentrification and displacement are occurring across Los Angeles County, particularly in relation to transit lines. In Los Angeles, researchers found that areas near transit stations tended to be changing, with many of them trending toward gentrification, and “neighborhood upscaling.”
READ MORE >August 2016
The Urban Displacement Project
gentrification and displacement, social justice, transportation
Another Inconvenient Truth: To Achieve Climate Change Goals, California Must Remove Barriers to Sustainable Land Use
This report looks at how the Bay Area must aggressively increase the production of housing and focus on Priority Development Areas to make it possible for more people to drive less, in order to reach the region’s greenhouse gas emissions targets.
READ MORE >August 2016
Bay Area Council Economic Institute
affordable housing, climate change, transportation
National Resources & Technical Assistance for Transit-Oriented Development
This online hub compiles information and ideas to help everyone from concerned residents to elected officials develop outstanding transit-oriented development projects.
READ MORE >July 2016
Smart Growth America
transit-oriented development
Who’s On Board: What Today’s Riders Teach Us About Transit That Works
This report looks at when people choose to ride transit and in what conditions, plus breaks down the common stereotype that there are only two kinds of transit riders: “choice riders” who own cars but can be lured onto transit and “captive riders” who don’t own cars and thus will use transit regardless of service quality. The report offers several recommendations on transportation, land use, and development policy to support higher transit ridership.
READ MORE >July 2016
TransitCenter
transit-oriented development, transportation
GreenTRIP Connect
City officials, developers, and community members can use this online tool to instantly calculate how smart location, affordable homes, and traffic reduction strategies can reduce driving and greenhouse gas emissions from residential developments throughout California.
READ MORE >July 2016
TransForm
affordable housing, transit-oriented development, transportation, walking and bicycling
Shared-Use Mobility Toolkit for Cities
This new report looks at the growth and opportunities in bikeshare, ridesharing, and shared mobility systems. It includes interactive mapping tools for 50 US cities, an opportunity analysis tool, a policy database, and a shared mobility benefits calculator for identifying the environmental and energy benefits from expanding shared transportation. The report also finds that access to car-share and bike-share is worse in many communities of color.
READ MORE >July 2016
Shared-Use Mobility Center
transportation, walking and bicycling
About That $17 Billion Water Project: Delta Tunnels 101
This piece breaks down the controversial $17 billion water project that would build two 30-mile water tunnels in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.
READ MORE >July 2016
KQED Science
water
Expanding Housing Supply in California: A New Framework for State Land Use Regulation
The Terner Center for Housing Innovation at UC Berkeley analyzes Governor Brown’s Streamlining Affordable Housing Approvals proposal, plus looks at similar legislation in Massachusetts known as Chapter 40B.
READ MORE >July 2016
Journal of Case Study Research by the Center for California Real Estate
affordable housing
Opportunity Score
This online tool evaluates housing locations across 350 cities according to the accessibility of jobs within a 30-minute walk or transit ride.
READ MORE >June 2016
Redfin; Walk Score
economic opportunity, transportation, walking and bicycling
Sprawl and the Cost of Living
This analysis looks at the “sprawl tax”: how much more Americans pay in time and money because of sprawling urban development patterns. It finds that the sprawl tax is large enough to erase much of the supposed cost advantages of low density settlement.
READ MORE >June 2016
CityCommentary
transit-oriented development
California’s Green Innovation Index: Eighth Edition
This report tracks California’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. It includes scorecards detailing the role of regions in the state’s clean technology success, showing that places not often thought to be clean technology pacesetters are clean-energy leaders.
READ MORE >June 2016
Next10
clean energy, climate change, economic opportunity
The Northern California Megaregion: Innovative, Connected, Growing
This report looks at environmental and economic trends across the Bay Area, Sacramento Area, Northern San Joaquin Valley, and Monterey Bay Area: the “Northern California Megaregion.” The report gives specific policy recommendations including regarding transportation connectivity in order to meet the state’s greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets.
READ MORE >June 2016
Bay Area Council Economic Institute
climate change, economic opportunity, transportation
