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Gentrification and Neighborhood Change: Helpful Tools for Communities

Posted on 04/19/18

Resources | Policy

Developed by the University of Illinois Chicago's Nathalie P. Voorhees Center for Neighborhood and Community Improvement this toolkit presents strategies for addressing the pressures of gentrification in a community during different phases of gentrification.

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Healthy Development Without Displacement

Posted on 04/19/18

Resources | What Makes a Healthy Community

In this new paper, the Prevention Institute explores: What can people working on “healthy community” issues—like active transportation, parks, healthy food, planning, public health, healthcare, and more—do in their own work to improve community conditions without contributing to gentrification and displacement?

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Gentrification, Displacement and the Role of Public Investment: A Literature Review

Posted on 04/19/18

Resources | Policy

This literature review will document the vast bodies of scholarship that have sought to
examine the issues of gentrification and displacement.

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Dealing with Neighborhood Change: A Primer on Gentrification and Policy Choices

Posted on 04/19/18

Resources | Policy

PolicyLink and the Brookings Institution Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy created this primer on how to view the issue of gentrification.

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Take-Home Advice from Community Initiatives Improving Health & Equity: A Summary of Learnings From Catalysts

Posted on 02/23/18

Resources | Policy

In 2015, Communities Joined in Action (CJA) launched this take-home advice series to accelerate local organizations’ efforts toward achieving better health and well-being for their communities. This marks the sixth issue in this series, which is based on semiannual surveys of leaders from organizations catalyzing population health in order to provide usable information for communities.

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Analyzing investment flows in comprehensive community revitalization: The case of Bayview Hunters Point, San Francisco

Posted on 12/19/17

Resources | Investment

Published in the Journal of Urban Affairs, the Network's Renee Roy Elias' study uses the case of housing revitalization in San Francisco’s Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood to determine the feasibility of analyzing public, private, and nonprofit investment flows related to the Choice Neighborhoods Initiative and HOPE SF.

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Building Pre-K: Philanthropy & CDFI Collaborations in Financing Early Education Facilities

Posted on 12/11/17

Resources | Investment

This "Building Pre-K” report from LIIF examines efforts aimed at financing quality preschool facilities at scale and highlights the potential for increasing the impact of collaborations among philanthropy, community development financiers and the public sector.

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The Story of Booth Child Development Center

Posted on 12/11/17

Resources | What Makes a Healthy Community

This video tells the story of the Booth Memorial Child Development Center, which was renovated to improve the health of the children and staff.

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Inclusionary Housing in the United States: Prevalence, Impact, and Practices

Posted on 11/28/17

Resources | Policy

This study from The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy supports that inclusionary housing programs are an increasingly prevalent tool for producing affordable housing.

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Nonprofit Readiness for Health Partnership

Posted on 11/28/17

Resources | What Makes a Healthy Community

The Nonprofit Readiness for Health Partnership tool from the Nonprofit Finance Fund (NFF) helps community-based organizations that are considering partnering with healthcare organizations identify capacity or investment needs so that they can be well positioned to explore partnership opportunities. This free, downloadable resource was developed as part of NFF’s Healthy Outcomes Initiative, supported by The Kresge Foundation.

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The Evolution and Future of the Healthy Communities Movement

Posted on 11/09/17

Resources | What Makes a Healthy Community

Over the past four decades, the Healthy Communities movement has transformed traditional definitions and approaches to health.

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Urban Blight and Public Health

Posted on 04/19/17

Resources | What Makes a Healthy Community

We spend more than 2/3rds of our time where we live; thus, housing and neighborhood conditions invariably affect our individual and family’s well-being. The health impacts from blighted properties—substandard housing, abandoned buildings, and vacant lots—are often not immediately visible or felt. This report—Urban Blight and Public Health—synthesizes recent studies on the complexities of how blight affects the health of individuals and neighborhoods while offering a blend of policy and program recommendations to help guide communities in taking a more holistic and coordinated approach, such as expanding the use of health impact assessments, tracking health outcomes, and infusing public health into housing policies, codes and practices.

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Regional Healthy Communities Workshop: Advancing Partnerships for Health Equity and Economic Mobility

Posted on 02/28/17

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Workshop Highlights from the August 9th convening in Cleveland, Ohio
Co-hosted by the Build Healthy Place Network, County Health Rankings and Roadmaps, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland

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