Vision StatementSmart, targeted, and equitable public infrastructure investments can generate enormous community benefits—jobs, business opportunities, access to public transportation, and quality affordable housing. ... read more ...But, for too long, infrastructure investments have been fraught with disparities along race and class lines. Low-income neighborhoods are too often saddled with inadequate transportation, overcrowded and run-down schools, and other degraded public facilities. Some rural communities lack even the most basic investments like sidewalks, drain pipes, and sewer systems. There can be no doubt that increased and ongoing investments in infrastructure are needed. Yet, when we invest in infrastructure, we must always ask: Who pays? Who benefits? Who bears the environmental impacts? And, who decides? To ensure everyone benefits from these public investments, everyone—including and especially residents of low-income communities and communities of color—must have a seat at the negotiating table. The PolicyLink Center for Infrastructure Equity advocates for fair and inclusive policies and provides community and grassroots leaders, advocates, and public officials with the tools, training, and consultation needed to ensure that public investments in infrastructure create economic opportunity and health in all communities. Close |
Reports & Fact Sheets
REPORT: All Aboard! Making Equity and Inclusion Central to Federal Transportation Policy
REPORT: The Transportation Prescription: Bold New Ideas for Healthy, Equitable Transportation Reform in America
REPORT: Healthy, Equitable Transportation Policy: Recommendations and Research
REPORT: Finding Work, Finding Hope: Guide to Getting Stimulus Dollars
REPORT: Ensuring Equity and Inclusion through the Surface Transportation Authorization Act of 2009 (analysis and recommendations)
REPORT: An Engine of Opportunity: A User's Guide to Advocate for Federal Equity in the 2008 Recovery Act
REPORT: Bringing Home the Green Recovery: A User's Guide to the 2009 America Recovery and Reinvestment Act
REPORT: Vision for Broadway, a report by the Planning and the Black Community Division (PBCD) of American Planning Association
WEBINAR RECORDINGS
AUDIO: Sustainable Communities Grant Program: Opportunities for Public Health Leadership and Healthy Community Design (7/7); click here for webinar recording; download presentations on the Sustainable Communities page.
AUDIO: Sustainable Communities Grant Program: Making Equity in Housing, Transportation, and Jobs the Heart of Your Region's Application (6/30); click here for webinar recording; download presentations on the Sustainable Communities page.
Watch the National roundtable explore the vital connections between transportation policy and childhood obesity


