Mixed-Income Transit-Oriented Development Action Guide
Online tool from Reconnecting America and the FTA that helps local planners choose relevant tools to ensure mixed-income TOD.

Great Communities Toolkit
This set of resources from the Bay Area’s Great Communities Collaborative includes handouts and policy fact sheets on topics such as Preventing Displacement and Incorporating Community Benefits.

TOD and Social Equity: An Agenda for Research and Action
Podcasts and presentations from June 1, 2010 conference sponsored by the University of California Transportation Center and the Center for Community Innovation at University of California at Berkeley

National TOD Database
This online data and mapping system provides Census data about neighborhoods surrounding 4,160 existing and proposed transit stations, including commuter rail, streetcars, light rail, bus rapid transit, and ferries. Produced by the Center for Transit-Oriented Development in collaboration with the Federal Transit Administration.

Housing + Transportation Cost Index
The H+T index models the combined costs of housing and transportation, the two largest household budget items, to more accurately describe the cost of living in different neighborhoods. Access maps and tables down to the Census block group level for all 337 metro regions in the US. Produced by the Center for Neighborhood Technology and the Center for Transit-Oriented Development.

Social Media

The Other Side of the Tracks
Daily clippings of TOD-relevant blog posts, articles, reports, compiled by Reconnecting America’s Jeff Wood.

Readings (Organized by Date)

2010

Maintaining Diversity In America’s Transit-Rich Neighborhoods: Tools for Equitable Neighborhood Change, Stephanie Pollack, Barry Bluestone, and Chase Billingham. Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy at Northeastern University, 2010.

Transit-Oriented Development, Community Investments, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, Summer 2010. Issue includes several relevant articles, in particular see Equipping Communities to Achieve Equitable Transit-Oriented Development by Matthew Soursourian and Making the Connection: Transit-Oriented Development and Jobs by Greg LeRoy of Good Jobs First.

Preserving Affordable Housing Near Transit: Case Studies from Atlanta, Denver, Seattle and Washington, D.C. Enterprise, The National Housing Trust, and Reconnecting America, 2010.

Making Affordable Housing at Transit a Reality: Best Practices in Transit Agency Joint Development, FRESC, 2010.

2009

Affordable Housing in Transit-Oriented Development. United States General Accounting Office, 2009.

Fostering Equitable and Sustainable Transit-Oriented Development. Living Cities, 2009.

Mapping Susceptibility to Gentrification: The Early Warning Toolkit, Karen Chapple. Center for Community Innovation, 2009.

2008

Somerville Equitable Transit-Oriented Development Strategy. Reconnecting America/Center for Transit Oriented Development, 2008.

Station Area Planning: How to Make Great Transit-Oriented Places. Reconnecting America/Center for Transit Oriented Development, 2008.

2007

The Beltline and Rising Home Prices: Residential Appreciation Near the Beltline Tax Allocation District and Policy Recommendations to Minimize Displacement. Dan Immergluck, 2007.

The Case for Mixed-Income Transit-Oriented Development in the Denver Region. Center for Transit-Oriented Development for Enterprise, 2007.

Transit-Oriented for All: The Case for Mixed-Income Transit-Oriented Communities in the Bay Area. Great Communities Collaborative, 2007

2006

A Heavy Load: The Combined Housing and Transportation Burdens of Working Families. Center for Housing Policy, 2006.

Building the Line to Equity: Six Steps for Achieving Equitable Transit Oriented Development in Massachusetts. PolicyLink, 2006.

Making the Connection: Transit Oriented Development and Jobs. Good Jobs First, 2006.

Preserving and Promoting Diverse Transit-Oriented Neighborhoods. Center for Neighborhood Technology, 2006.

Tools for Mixed-Income TOD. Center for Transit Oriented Development, 2006.

Pre-2006

The Long Journey Home: A Federal Transportation Policy for Working Families. The Brookings Institution, 2003.

The New Transit Town: Best Practices in Transit Oriented Development. Hank Dittmar and Gloria Ohland, Washington D.C.: Island Press, 2004.

Transit Oriented Development: Moving from Rhetoric to Reality. The Brookings Institution, 2002.