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August 16, 2021
Uncovering JAPA: Understanding how to assess if a planning initiative improves accessibility.
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July 23, 2021
Key takeaways from the ACSP/APA Practitioner Diversity Climate Survey. Planners acknowledge that employers are responsible for creating a climate of inclusion that starts at recruitment and continues through promotion. Employees also need ongoing training and support to accomplish these goals.
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July 22, 2021
Uncovering JAPA: The ideal of school choice has travel implications for youth/students.
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July 8, 2021
Uncovering JAPA: Understanding the history of exclusionary zoning practices.
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May 21, 2021
The AICP Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct articulates shared values and how these should be applied in planning practice. The Code is being updated to reflect the needs of today's planners and members are invited to share their comments.
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May 17, 2021
Through community development work, the Mel King Institute in Boston continues to fight for causes that Mel King has championed his life.
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April 13, 2021
Zoning reform efforts are underway in Connecticut, a state with a long history of exclusionary zoning. Several bills that aim to tackle zoning reform are in play at the legislature this session — and planners are weighing in.
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March 25, 2021
Uncovering JAPA: A survey of Black and Latinx planning students found that the students experienced different levels of discrimination depending on their citizenship status, race/ethnicity, nationality, and citizen status. Participants did not believe that planning education was allowing students to develop the skills to be culturally sensitive planners.
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March 11, 2021
Uncovering JAPA: The grid system of American city streets has tangible implications for equity in mobility, public health, and environmental sustainability.
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February 18, 2021
Uncovering JAPA: Neighborhoods that were once targets of redlining now have higher land surface temperatures than other neighborhoods in the same city. Planners need to correct past policy errors to make cities more equitable, including in urban heat management.
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February 16, 2021
Uncovering JAPA: Chicago's policy of selling vacant lots at a very low cost to adjacent landowners and other purchasers with local connections has resulted in a reduction in neighborhood crime.
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February 11, 2021
Uncovering JAPA: Why do landlords set housing rents below market? Can planners use this to expand affordable housing without public subsidies?
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November 5, 2020
Uncovering JAPA: How and why should planners better understand the terms Hispanic, Latino, and Latinx?
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October 29, 2020
Uncovering JAPA: How can planners make driving safer and make stronger arguments for carpooling? What if planners could also become advocates for immigrants at the same time?
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October 22, 2020
Uncovering JAPA: What do quantitative methods reveal about LGBTQ neighborhood development and historic preservation?
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October 1, 2020
Uncovering JAPA: What can planning departments do to adopt an organizational racial equity framework?
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August 20, 2020
Uncovering JAPA: What are the spatial and economic implications of Whiteness in the U.S.?
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August 18, 2020
A Guide for the Idealist post: Challenging times may challenge idealist commitments but they endure with a focus on higher ideals of justice, truth, and beauty.
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August 6, 2020
Uncovering JAPA: How can local planning and policy efforts better support immigrant entrepreneurs? What could cities do to lower barriers for immigrant businesses to thrive?
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July 28, 2020
Planners offer a big-picture, multidisciplinary lens that can play a pivotal role in increasing equity. Here are six things planners can do to advance racial wealth and economic opportunity in your community.
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July 27, 2020
A Guide for the Idealist post: Planners of all types have a role to play in addressing racial injustice by connecting each decision to its effects on the whole community.
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July 23, 2020
Uncovering JAPA: Can large-scale climate action coexist with community-based planning? One JAPA author says they can and they must.
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July 1, 2020
APA announces its new Voices of Equity in Planning, a multi-part video series demonstrating that equity is a necessary guiding principle for planners and all who participate in the process of planning as advisors, advocates, and decision makers.
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June 25, 2020
Uncovering JAPA: Does digital urban agriculture mean the end of small scale growing?
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June 18, 2020
Uncovering JAPA: Affordable housing and resiliency must coexist. How can low-income households weather the storm?
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March 31, 2020
In celebration of Women's History Month, two women who hold top Houston planning positions discuss their work and aspirations.
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March 26, 2020
Uncovering JAPA: Interviews, focus groups, and walking audits can be added to statistics to help create a full picture of the mobility needs of older adults.
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March 5, 2020
Uncovering JAPA: Planners may create communities more resilient to housing foreclosure by addressing location affordability.
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February 27, 2020
Uncovering JAPA: Neighborhood association insurgents successfully challenged planning in one Detroit neighborhood, and planners can support marginalized voices elsewhere.
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February 20, 2020
Uncovering JAPA: There is more to housing affordability than finding a place with a reasonable rent. What can planners do to promote energy efficiency and, more importantly, energy justice?
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November 21, 2019
Uncovering JAPA: Co-production offers what citizen control can’t — systems change — but the public sector still has a great role to play.
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October 17, 2019
Uncovering JAPA: Is community control — a shift of power from the government to the majority of the community — the way to address injustice faced by marginalized members of the community?
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August 8, 2019
Uncovering JAPA: If cities want to attract new residents and planners want those residents to thrive, a coordinated response to bed bugs is necessary.
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August 1, 2019
Uncovering JAPA: Single-family restrictions, lot sizes restrictions, and parking requirements limit developers’ ability to build affordable housing. However, in this quandary, we may also find the solution.
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July 11, 2019
Read about the three key housing crisis takeaways for planners in the new National League of Cities Housing Task Force report, Homeward Bound.
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June 13, 2019
One of APA's partners, Enterprise, describes its work in the arena of housing affordability and accessibility.
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May 21, 2019
Clovis, California's Cottage Home Program for affordable housing is expanding throughout the city.
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July 25, 2018
Ohio State University students and faculty explore ways of planning to improve the lives of individuals with autism.
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March 26, 2018
Housing affordability challenges across the nation are some of the most pressing and controversial. Learn more about California housing legislation and the role of planners.
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January 11, 2018
In a controversial move, HUD issued a notice effectively suspending new fair housing planning rules until 2020. APA plans to submit comments on the action.
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July 14, 2017
Representative Nanette Diaz Barragán recently introduced the Outdoor Recreation Legacy Partnership Program Act of 2017, a bill that would codify funding for the development of urban parks, green spaces, and recreational areas in communities across the country.
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April 24, 2017
Community Development Programs have impacted communities all across the country, here are just a few of the many accomplishments made possible by CDBG and HOME.
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February 3, 2017
Issues of housing, social equity, and access to data are critical APA legislative and policy priorities, and APA will vigorously oppose legislation that threatens them.
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July 14, 2016
A new study examines why Inclusionary Zoning is a driver of economic diversity and expanding opportunities in cities across the U.S.
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June 27, 2016
Building more market-rate housing in desirable areas, like Chicago's Lincoln Park, could increase access to affordable housing on a regional scale.
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June 20, 2016
Parks are integral to health and social equity, and public policy must support the development of urban and community parks.
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June 6, 2016
Many planners have heard of environmental justice, but there have been challenges implementing it during the planning process. For a variety of reasons, the barriers are coming down.
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May 18, 2016
States and local governments are working to find innovative ways to remove barriers to affordable housing construction and to be more involved in planning for higher density.
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May 3, 2016
A high school class in Denver is studying gentrification and its impact on their lives.
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April 5, 2016
HUD Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Harriet Tregoning tells the 2016 National Planning Conference that income inequality and equitable growth is “the issue of our time” in planning.
