To create a context for equitable development while
preventing displacement of residents:
Getting Started: Securing Your Community
- Understand the economic,
political, and social forces at work
- Assess, map, and analyze the potential
for displacement
- Support resident participation in land use planning that
envisions community-wide economic improvement
- Stabilize current residents
in communities experiencing increases in
property values
- Expand the range of housing not susceptible to the commercial
market
through permanent affordability mechanisms
- Promote diverse homeownership opportunities
for existing residents
- Plan for newcomers to promote a diverse community
mix and ensure affordability
- Target income and asset strategies to stabilize
current residents
- Anchor culturally-rooted commercial, nonprofit and arts
organizations
in mixed income communities
Advancing Regional Equity: Moving Beyond the Neighborhood
- Build
public awareness of the issues and proposed solutions among key players
- Advocate mixed-income development at every turn and across jurisdictions
- Make environmental justice and social equity central components of
regional development
- Integrate solutions to public transit, affordable housing,
workforce development, and open space issues
- Connect planning for transit
investment and affordable housing development. Utilize equity criteria
to guide new investment
- Identify key incentives for jurisdictions to adopt
mixed income housing practices
- Secure valuable anti-discrimination practices
to ensure fair housing.
- Tie affordable housing production to commercial
growth
- Strengthen regional cooperation in community and economic development
planning
- Craft policies to engage local, regional, state, and federal governments
in addressing gentrification pressures
