A cooperative effort between the San Francisco Foundation, PolicyLink, and the USC Program for Environmental and Regional Equity, the Bay Area Equity Atlas went online in June 2019, raising the level of Internet exposures to the dynamics of inequality, gentrification, and development at work in one of the country's most hosting impacted regions. The interactive website allows users to explore data on critical measures connected to regional equity like housing burden, market rent, and gentrification risk. There are also a few measures that might surprise users encountering some of these realities for the first time, like first-time extreme commuting, business revenue, and affordable housing production. In Contra Costa County, for instance, extreme commuting increased from 4.2 percent to 6.2 percent, according to data from the American Community Survey (ACS). Median monthly rent increased in the same County from $1,1911 in 2011 to $2,689, according to data from Zillow and the ACS.

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