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Promoting Opportunity through Equitable Transit-Oriented Development (eTOD): Barriers to Success and Best Practices for Implementation
October 2015by: John Hersey, AICP, Michael SpottsThis guide belongs to the Social Equity and Transit-Oriented Development collections. -
Albany, NY, Albany 2030
Adopted April 2012This city's comprehensive plan belongs to the Age-Friendly Communities, Built Environment and Health, Community Visioning, Comprehensive Planning, Food Systems, Social Equity, and Solar Energy collections. -
Fort Collins, CO, City Plan
Adopted April 2019The city's comprehensive plan belongs to the Age-Friendly Communities, Capital Improvements Programming, Community Visioning, Comprehensive Planning, Social Equity, and Solar Energy collections. -
Raleigh, NC, 2030 Comprehensive Plan
Updated November 2019This city's comprehensive plan belongs to the Built Environment and Health, Capital Improvements Programming, Community Visioning, Comprehensive Planning, Creative Placemaking, Environmentally Sensitive Areas, Historic Preservation, Neighborhood Planning, Outdoor Lighting, and Social Equity collections. -
Lowell, MA, Sustainable Lowell 2025
Adopted 2013This city's comprehensive plan belongs to the Built Environment and Health, Community Visioning, Comprehensive Planning, Social Equity, and Solar Energy collections. -
The Myth of Social Capital in Community Development
Housing Policy Debate, 12(4): 781-806, 2001by: James DefilippisThis article critiques Robert Putnam’s interpretation of social capital, which is foundational for much community development practice today. -
Fulton County, GA, Comprehensive Plan
Adopted October 2016The county’s comprehensive plan includes an Environmental Justice chapter. -
Minneapolis, MN, Code of Ordinances
Updated November 2021This regulation belongs to the Accessory Dwelling Units, Active Transportation, Affordable Housing Programs, Built Environment and Health, Food Trucks, Green Building, Group Housing, Housing Supply Planning, Residential Infill Development, Rethinking Off-Street Parking Requirements, Shared Mobility, Social Equity, Solar Energy, Urban Agriculture, and Urban Livestock collections. -
Equitable Development as a Tool to Advance Racial Equity
September 2015by: Ryan Curren, Nora Liu, Dwayne MarshThis report proposes an Equitable Development Framework, shares case studies of projects that have adopted an equitable development approach, and defines what success looks like. -
Capital for Communities Scorecard
September 2022by: Michael MarazziThis tool scores proposed real estate developments or operating business investments based on the potential social, economic and environment impacts. -
Advancing Racial Equity in Inclusionary Housing Programs
February 2021by: Stephanie Reyes, Amy KhareThis guide is designed to help planners and local officials design inclusionary housing programs that support racial equity goals. -
Baltimore, MD, City Code
Updated October 2021These regulations belong to the Complete Streets, Home Occupations, Housing Supply Planning, Inclusionary Housing, Rethinking Off-Street Parking Requirements, Social Equity, Transit-Oriented Development, Urban Agriculture, and Zoning Reform and Code Writing collections. -
Seattle, WA, Seattle 2035
Updated December 2018This comprehensive plan belongs to the Affordable Housing Programs, Age-Friendly Communities, Creative Placemaking, Environmentally Sensitive Areas, Housing Supply Planning, Neighborhood Planning, and Social Equity collections. -
Lessons for LEED® for Neighborhood Development, Social Equity, and Affordable Housing
Journal of the American Planning Association, 82(1): 37-49, 2016by: Nicola SzibboThis article belongs to the Affordable Housing Programs, Green Building, and Social Equity collections. -
Case Studies in Affordable Housing Through Historic Preservation Number 5: Van Allen Apartments, Clinton, Iowa
August 2006by: Claire Kelly, Sam EriksonThis case study belongs to the Affordable Housing Programs, Historic Preservation, Housing Supply Planning, and Social Equity collections. -
Housing as an Asset Class: Opportunities for Systems Change to Enhance Social Equity an Inclusion
September 2017by: Maya Brennan, Pam Blumenthal, Laurie GoodmanThis report belongs to the Affordable Housing Programs and Social Equity collections. -
New Hampshire Innovative Land Use Planning Techniques: A Handbook for Sustainable Development
October 2008This model belongs to the Active Transportation, Environmentally Sensitive Areas, Farmland Protection, Housing Supply Planning, Inclusionary Housing, Residential Infill Development, Scenic View Protection, Social Equity, Transfer of Development Rights, and Transit-Oriented Development collections. -
San Antonio, TX, SA Tomorrow
Adopted August 2016This comprehensive plan belongs to the Active Transportation, Built Environment and Health, Housing Supply Planning, Residential Infill Development, and Social Equity collections. -
Atlanta, GA, Code of Ordinances
Updated August 2021This regulation belongs to the Affordable Housing Programs, Active Transportation, Content-Neutral Sign Regulation, Food Trucks, Green Building, Shared Mobility, Social Equity, and Transfer of Development Rights collections. -
The Role of Community Land Trusts in Fostering Equitable, Transit-Oriented Development: Case Studies from Atlanta, Denver, and the Twin Cities
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy Working Paper, 2013by: Robert HickeyThis report belongs to the Affordable Housing Programs, Social Equity, and Transit-Oriented Development collections. -
Case Studies in Affordable Housing Through Historic Preservation Number 4: Northern Hotel, Fort Collins, Colorado
August 2006by: Charles Fisher, Bill SimpsonThis case study belongs to the Affordable Housing Programs, Historic Preservation, Housing Supply Planning, and Social Equity collections. -
Case Studies in Affordable Housing Through Historic Preservation Number 2: Carnegie Place Apartments, Sioux City, Iowa
July 1999by: Aleca Sullivan, Mary Jean MontgomeryThis case study belongs to the Affordable Housing Programs, Historic Preservation, Housing Supply Planning, and Social Equity collections. -
Case Studies in Affordable Housing Through Historic Preservation Number 3: Shelly School Apartments, West York, Pennsylvania
October 2005by: Bonnie Wilkinson Mark, Dan DeiblerThis case study belongs to the Affordable Housing Programs, Historic Preservation, Housing Supply Planning, and Social Equity collections. -
Case Studies in Affordable Housing Through Historic Preservation Number 1: Pacific Hotel, Seattle, Washington
August 1998by: Aleca Sullivan, Ron MurphyThis case study belongs to the Affordable Housing Programs, Historic Preservation, Housing Supply Planning, and Social Equity collections. -
Mapping America's Rental Housing Crisis
April 2017by: Erika Poethig, Liza Getsinger, Josh LeopoldThis interactive map belongs to the Affordable Housing Programs, Housing Supply Planning, and Social Equity collections. -
Keeping the Neighborhood Affordable: A Handbook of Housing Strategies for Gentrifying Areas
2006by: Diane Levy, Jennifer Comey, Sandra PadillaThis guide shares strategies to develop affordable housing, to retain affordable housing, and to build assets. -
Boston, MA, Imagine Boston 2030
Adopted July 2017This comprehensive plan belongs to the Affordable Housing Programs, Climate Change, Housing Supply Planning, and Social Equity collections. -
Commerce, CA, 2020 General Plan
Adopted January 2008The city’s comprehensive plan lists Environmental Justice as an issue in the Air Quality element. -
Equity Resource Navigator
2024This page includes a collection of resources to support equity efforts by local officials and government staff. -
Federal Way, WA, Code of Ordinances
Updated September 2024The city’s codified ordinances establish a diversity commission to advise the city council and staff on the needs of culturally diverse communities. -
Chicago, IL, Technology Plan
Updated September 2013This functional plan outlines the city's strategies to use technology to help accelerate economic growth, build digitally-included communities, and improve government services. -
Brownfield Redevelopment for Equitable and Resilient Communities
June 2024This guide aids local governments and development partners in brownfield redevelopment that promotes community resiliency and equitable development. -
Minneapolis, MN, Minneapolis 2040
Adopted October 2019The city’s comprehensive plan belongs to the Affordable Housing Programs, Climate Change, Complete Streets, Housing Supply Planning, Shared Mobility, Social Equity, and Urban Heat Resilience collections. -
Mayah's Lot
2012by: Charlie LaGreca, Rebecca BratspiesThis book explores local environmental justice and neighborhood planning in the form of a comic. -
Protecting Property Values, Not People: Discriminatory Land Use Policies in Pittsburgh, 1910s–Today
February 2025by: Carolyn Ristau, NoneThis report synthesizes the results of extensive archival research and interviews with residents, housing advocates, and planners and proposes a new framework for equitable land use policies in Pittsburgh. -
Portland, OR, Comprehensive Plan
Updated March 2020This city's comprehensive plan belongs to the Accessory Dwelling Units, Affordable Housing Programs, Comprehensive Planning, Environmentally Sensitive Areas, Housing Supply Planning, Inclusionary Housing, Social Equity, Solar Energy, and Tree Preservation and the Urban Forest collections. -
Seattle, WA, Municipal Code
Updated April 2025This regulation belongs to 22 different Research KnowledgeBase collections, ranging from Accessory Dwelling Units to Youth in Planning. -
Gender Mainstreaming
PAS QuickNotes 84Gender mainstreaming is the process of identifying how decisions impact people by gender and using that information to make decisions that benefit all community members. -
Dimensions of Equity
PAS QuickNotes 105Equity encompasses multiple dimensions, and it should be addressed in multiple ways. -
Planning Accessible Communities
PAS Memo 117The ADA self-evaluation and transition plan process is a vital first step in addressing the accessibility of both the built environment and municipal programs and services to create truly inclusive communities. -
More and Better: Increasing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Planning
PAS Memo — May/June 2019Overcoming old-school institutional and structural practices used to design cities requires new approaches to urban planning with intentional approaches to seeking diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I). There are many ways to approach this work, but the primary — and perhaps the most critical — is within the profession. -
Equity-Oriented Performance Measures in Transportation Planning
PAS Memo — March/April 2020Planners are now more clearly recognizing the impacts of a half-century of inequitable, auto-oriented planning as well as the outcomes resulting from structural racism. To rectify current inequities, which are a legacy of many years of cumulative decisions, planners must work proactively to improve communities that have historically experienced disinvestment and negative impacts. -
Decolonizing the Future: An Inclusive Approach to Futures
PAS QuickNotes 110Decolonizing the future is about questioning the continuation of past and present systems, envisioning multiple futures by integrating diverse perspectives, and ensuring the resulting outcomes are translated into actions. -
Cultural Humility in Planning
PAS QuickNotes 112Cultural humility involves an ongoing process of self-exploration combined with a willingness to learn from others that honors the beliefs, customs, and values of all people. -
Eliminating Food Insecurity With Aquaponics
by: Dina WaltersEquity in Practice: East Oakland partners to address food insecurity. -
New Habitat Restoration Tool Helps to Prioritize Equity
by: Dina WaltersEquity in Practice: Fort Collins created a habitat equity tool that focuses not just on nature but people. -
Inclusive Healthy Places Action Guide for Planners
by: David Morley, AICP April 27, 2023This guide serves as an adaptation and extension of Gehl's Inclusive Healthy Places Framework, focusing on actions planners can take to advance inclusion and health equity in efforts to shape public space. Planners can use this action guide to operationalize the Inclusive Healthy Places Framework through research and analysis, engagement and collaboration, plan and policy making, program design a -
Equity-Oriented Performance Measures in Transportation Planning
PAS Memo — March-April 2020by: Audrey Wennink, Agustina Krapp March 01, 2020The March/April 2020 PAS Memo examines the use of equity-based performance measurement criteria in the transportation investment prioritization processes of metropolitan planning organizations and makes recommendations for improving these practices.List Price$10.00APA members & PAS subscribers$0.00 -
Gender Mainstreaming
PAS QuickNotes 84by: Johamary PenaThis edition of PAS QuickNotes explains the concept of gender mainstreaming and summarizes how local officials and planners can begin integrating gender equity considerations into planning processes to help build more inclusive and just communities.List price$10.00APA member & PAS subscriber$0.00 -
Equity in Zoning Policy Guide
by: American Planning Association February 08, 2023APA's Equity in Zoning Policy Guide positions planners to lead the way on zoning changes at the local, state, and federal level.