Ensures that healthy local businesses owned by people of color are a basic component of strong, sustainable communities. (2004)

An array of strategies that connect economically marginalized communities to regional job opportunities. (2004)

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. (2004)

Implement these laws to protect renters against being unfairly evicted by landlords who want to capitalize on the explosive rental and housing markets. (2004)

Infill incentives can produce new housing units, reduce blight, preserve open space, reduce traffic, and encourage retail development that serves the needs of existing residents. (2004)

Land use regulation mandating a percentage (usually 15-20%) of the housing units in all larger projects be affordable to people of low and moderate incomes. (2003)

Use this tool to steer neighborhoods back to sustainable recovery after foreclosure processes are well underway. (2009)

Preserve affordable rental units by protecting subsidized housing units with expiring contracts. (2004)

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. (2004)

Requires new commercial developments to contribute fees to the development of affordable housing, community services and infrastructure. (2004)