Integrating tools that focus on helping residents earn a decent living and build their assets with those that focus on improving their neighborhoods, increasing resident stability, and promoting healthy neighborhoods. These strategies link residents to opportunities, create good jobs, improve transportation access, and build assets.
Link Residents to Opportunities
Local Hiring
An array of strategies that connect economically marginalized communities to regional job opportunities.
Minority Contracting
Ensures that healthy local businesses owned by people of color are a basic component of strong, sustainable communities.
Create Good Jobs
Living Wage Provisions
Ordinances that ensure the employees of public contractors, private contractors receiving public sector funding, and public employees are paid wages at pace with regional cost of living measures.
Improve Transportation Access
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.
Community Mapping
Mapping can be used to advocate for community benefits, convey development opportunities, track vacant properties, and more.
Build Assets
Resident-Owned CDFIs
Resident-owned community financial institutions build assets for low-income residents and provide them with a stronger voice in neighborhood development and revitalization.
CDCs with Resident Shareholders
Offers low-income residents the opportunity to own equity in real estate projects spearheaded by community development corporations (CDCs).
Community Mapping
Mapping can be used to advocate for community benefits, convey development opportunities, track vacant properties, and more.
Employer-Assisted Housing
Most EAH programs help employees purchase homes—often near their workplace. They can provide rental assistance or increase the housing in the surrounding community affordable for an employer's workers.
