Understanding Mixed-Income TOD
/This webinar provided a description of mixed-income TOD, including Denver and Puget Sound case studies.
Affordable housing
Creating Equitable, Healthy, and Sustainable Communities: Strategies for Advancing Smart Growth, Environmental Justice, and Equitable Development
/This publication highlights strategies and approaches that link smart growth, environmental justice, and equitable development. In Chapter 3, these strategies and approaches are grouped under seven common themes that unite the three concepts. The fundamental overlap between smart growth, environmental justice, and equitable development is how to plan and build neighborhoods to address environmental, health, … Continued
Regional Equity Atlas: Geography of Opportunity
/The Regional Equity Atlas uses maps, policy analysis, and community based research to promote widespread opportunity for a stronger, healthier, and more sustainable region.
Building and Preserving Affordable Homes Near Transit
/Building and Preserving Affordable Homes Near Transit: Affordable TOD as a Greenhouse Gas Reduction and Equity Strategy The California Housing Partnership Corporation initiated this report in order to assess existing research on the role of preservation and development of affordable housing in transit--oriented corridors as a greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction strategy for California. As a … Continued
Building Capacity: Helping Communities Create Vibrant, Healthy and Economically Prosperous Neighborhoods
/The information in this document represents a compilation of specific issue area briefs provided by Team Implementation. Each issue brief accompanied a webinar and allowed grantees to gain additional resources on topics such as creating regional TOD plans and strategies, infill infrastructure financing, advancing sustainability in a slow economy, and redeveloping brownfield properties. This document … Continued
Why Creating and Preserving Affordable Homes Near Transit Is a Highly Effective Climate Protection Strategy
/A new analysis of data from Caltrans’ California Household Travel Survey (CHTS) completed in February 2013 shows that a well-designed program to put more affordable homes near transit would not just meet the requirements set by the California Air Resources Board (ARB), but would be a powerful and durable GHG reduction strategy – directly reducing … Continued
Planning Equitable Corridors & Transit-Oriented Development
/This webinar considers the issue of equity in planning TOD corridors, and features Denver, Twin Cities, and Baltimore case studies.
Los Angeles Equity Atlas
/The Equity Atlas draws from existing research and material to understand geographic differences in performance towards achieving the countywide equity goals outlined in the report. The Equity Atlas clearly articulates how these goals related to transportation and land use investments. The Equity Atlas overlays the transit network on different measures to understand how we perform … Continued
Making Affordable Housing at Transit a Reality: Best Practices in Transit Agency Joint Development
/Transit agencies’ primary mission is to provide transit service; however, most recognize that affordable housing can play a key role in supporting their mission,” the report’s authors, Robin Kniech and Melinda Pollack, note. The authors found successful transit agencies play a critical complementary role to local governments, often initiating projects that include affordable housing that … Continued
Promoting opportunity through eTOD: Barriers to success and Best practices for implementation
/This is the second report in the series. It includes a broader range of eTOD-supportive policies, including but not limited to those instituted by transit agencies, departments of transportation, metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs), state and local governments, and the housing sector.