Focus Area - PolicyLink

PolicyLink Center for Health and Place

Where you live affects how you live.
Live in a community with parks and playgrounds, living wages, grocery stores that sell nutritious food, well maintained housing, and high quality public transit, and you're more likely to thrive. But if you live in a community with dilapidated housing, few job opportunities, limited...

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PolicyLink Center for Infrastructure

Smart, targeted, and equitable public infrastructure investments can generate enormous community benefits—jobs, business opportunities, access to public transportation, and quality affordable housing...

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Leadership and Civic Engagement

Policy is how communities organize their resources, conduct business, and most importantly, reflect their priorities. We, at PolicyLink, firmly believe that if policies are to work for the entire community, everyone should have a voice in shaping policy decisions...

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Federal Policy Agenda

The voices of low-income people and people of color are finally being heard in Washington, DC. Those closest to the nation’s challenges are best equipped to create and identify the ideas and innovations that will best help meet those challenges...