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
Healthy Food Retailing
Strategies to increase access to retail outlets that sell nutritious, affordable food in underserved low-income urban and rural communities.
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.
Code Enforcement
Can be an important tool for protecting tenants.
Brownfields
Encourage redevelopment of brownfields (abandoned, idled, or underutilized commercial or industrial sites).
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.
