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Health and Place Tool Group


 

Where you live, work, and play has a major impact on health – and living in a distressed neighborhood contributes to health inequities. Implement these tools to reduce environmental risk and build health-promoting neighborhoods.

Increase Access to Healthy Food

Access to Healthy Foods

Serves as an introduction to four tools -- Grocery Store Dev., Corner Stores, Farmers' Markets, and Urban Ag. and Community Gardens -- that help low-income and communities of color increase their access to healthy, fresh, affordable food.

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Corner Stores

Offers residents, policymakers, business leaders, and advocates ideas and strategies for improving small stores in underserved communities.

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Farmers Market

Details the challenges associated with starting and sustaining farmers' markets in low-income communities of color, as well as some of the successful strategies that have been used to overcome those challenges.

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Grocery Stores

Highlights a number of innovative strategies to help address the food access challenges and provides guidance for attracting fresh food retail into underserved communities.

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Urban Agriculture and Community Gardens

Addresses urban agriculture efforts focused on serving low-income communities and communities of color. Shows how projects can improve access to healthy, affordable food for low-income communities and improve residents' health.

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Encourage Active Living

Transit Oriented Development

How to implement TOD -- compact, mixed-use, pedestrian-oriented communities located around new or existing public transit stations -- in a way that achieves equity goals.

Urban Greening

Coming soon!

Improve Environmental Quality

Community Strategies to Prevent Asthma

Strategies and resources for improving air quality in homes, in schools, and outdoors.

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Code Enforcement

Can be an important tool for protecting tenants.

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Brownfields

Encourage redevelopment of brownfields (abandoned, idled, or underutilized commercial or industrial sites).

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Transit Oriented Development

How to implement TOD -- compact, mixed-use, pedestrian-oriented communities located around new or existing public transit stations -- in a way that achieves equity goals.

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