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Healthier Communities Through Redevelopment

Report

This guide provides an overview of the framework, tools, and general practices of redevelopment, showing how redevelopment projects can help improve residents' health while strengthening the local economy. By partnering with local redevelopment agencies, public...

Healthier Communities Through Redevelopment (3/11)

New Opportunities for Public Health: Working with Redevelopment

Podcast

Equipped with data, connections, and boots on the ground, public health professionals are in a prime position to help plan neighborhood redevelopment efforts and ensure their success. "New Opportunities for Public Health: Working with Redevelopment"...

New Opportunities for Redevelopment: Working with Public Health

Podcast

While the key goal of any redevelopment effort is strengthening the local tax base, neighborhood revitalization efforts can go a long way toward improving residents’ health and quality of life. This podcast explores what redevelopment...

A New Ally For Redevelopment: Working with Public Health

Fact Sheet

With many shared goals and valuable resources to direct toward neighborhood revitalization efforts, public health and redevelopment agency staff make powerful allies. This fact sheet is designed for redevelopment professionals to show how partnerships with...

A New Ally For Redevelopment (2/11)

San Francisco: A Fresh Approach

Podcast

This podcast shows how redevelopment support was key to attracting a grocery store and transforming a liquor store into a market filled with produce in the city's low-income Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood. Watch this podcast...

Healthier Food for Revitalized Communities

Webinar

Local efforts to rebuild "blighted" neighborhoods offer a prime opportunity to attract grocery stores and other healthy food outlets to the areas that need them most. During this webinar, we discussed how to plug into...

Webinar slides - part I

Webinar slides - part II

Oakland: A Struggle to Be Heard

Podcast

This podcast features local residents recalling the controversial history of redevelopment, where eminent domain abuse by public agencies in the 1950s and 60s resulted in the demolition of entire neighborhoods. It also showcases a recent...

Richmond: A Change in the Air

Podcast

This podcast tells the story of how community advocates in the heavily industrial city of Richmond worked closely with redevelopment and public health staff to improve local air quality. By documenting the effects of diesel...

San Jose: A Voice in the Process

Podcast

This podcast tells the story of a time when residents urged the local redevelopment agency to pay more attention to neighborhood safety in San Jose. As a result, a strong community coalition was born --...

Room for Improvement

Fact Sheet

Infill development – the development of vacant or underutilized parcels within urban centers and rural hubs – is increasingly seen as a critical solution to accommodate the additional housing, transit, and infrastructure needs of a...

Room for Improvement: Key Strategies for Healthy Infill (7/2015)

Building In Healthy Infill

Guide

Building In Healthy Infill: A Guide for Improving Public Health Through Development (6/2014)

Economic Development 101

Webinar

Communities across the country are tapping into new sources of funding to pay for infrastructure improvements that improve health. Economic development and redevelopment agencies manage a variety of financing programs, which community leaders can leverage...

Economic Development 101 presentation slides

Putting Business to Work: Incentive Policies for the Private Sector

Green for Greens: Finding Public Financing for Healthy Food Retail

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