Resources
1. Start Here: Just Communities Act Tools
- HB241/SB308 - Housing and Community Development - Just Communities Designation - PDF
- Just Communities: Frequently Asked Questions
- Separate and Unequal Neighborhoods: A Baseline Report for the Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development Division of Just Communities
2. Trauma-Informed Strategic Equity Plan Tools
- How to Develop a Strategic Equity Plan in Four Steps | Winter 2023 | ArcNews
- Conceptual Model of Historic Trauma
- Root Causes of Housing and Land Injustice | Race Forward
- Trauma Informed Community Building: The Evolution of a Community Engagement Model in a Trauma Impacted Neighborhood - PDF
- Racial Equity Impact Assessment Toolkit
- Redlining and Neighborhood Health
- Unpacking Racial and Health Equity Impact Assessments: Legislation, Tools, and Strategies for Community-Centered Change - Network for Public Health Law
- Building a Housing Justice Framework
- Capital for Communities Scorecard | Urban Institute
3. Measurement and Policy Decision Tools
- Using a Racial Equity Scorecard for Policy and Programs - PDF
- Racial Equity & Policy Toolkit - PDF
- Why Disaggregating Data by Race is Important for Racial Equity
- By the Numbers: Using Disaggregated Data to Inform Policies, Practices and Decision-making
- Oregon Housing and Community Services Racial Equity Tool
- Municipal Bond Racial and Social Equity Scorecard
- New York City Equitable Development Data Explorer
- Montgomery County Mapping Segregation Project
- Advancing Racial Equity in Housing and Community Development: An Anti-Racism Guide for Transformative Change - PDF
- Why Am I Always Being Researched?
- Funders Together to End Homelessness Policy Framework
4. Single Family Housing: Wealth Creation
- The N/NE Preference Policy
- A Long Road Home: A Racial Equity Analysis of Homeownership Support Programs in Massachusetts
- Washington State Housing Finance Commission Covenant Homeownership Program
- Fannie Mae Equitable Housing Finance Plan
- HMDA Longitudinal Dataset (1981 - 2021)
- Opportunity Zones LMI Map
5. Multifamily Housing: Access to Opportunity and Reinvestment
- Chicago Department of Housing Racial Equity Impact Assessment of the Qualified Allocation Plan
- Toward an Anti-Racist Paradigm in Community Development: High-Level Research Findings - PDF
- Fair Housing and Community Development: Time to Come Together
6. Emerging and Underrepresented Developers
- Building Community Wealth: Shifting Power and Capital in Real Estate Finance - PDF
- Affordable Housing Investors Council DEI Analysis of Underwriting Guidelines - PDF
- Redefining Risk in Service of Mission: Lending Cases from Bay Area LISC - PDF
7. Community Engagement, Control, and Ownership
- Community Investment Trust: Building Community Ownership One Investor at a Time
- Arnstein’s Ladder of Citizen Participation
- The Emerging Solidarity Economy: A Primer on Community Ownership of Real Estate
- Stories + Data = Power: Democratizing Urban Planning and Development
- The Boards and Commissions Leadership Institute: A Path to Co-Governance
8. Special Populations
- Tlaib, Kamlager-Dove Introduce Resolution on Juneteenth to Honor, Preserve, and Invest in Freedmen’s Settlements
- All-Black Towns Across America: Life Was Hard but Full of Promise
- Not Just Ramps–Disability and Housing Justice
- Toward Safety: Understanding Intimate Partner Violence and Homelessness | Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative
- ‘A Place That’s Safe’: Housing for Trans People, by Trans People
- Diverting Foster Youth From Homelessness
- Trauma-Informed Housing
9. Fair Housing
- Lofty Rhetoric, Prejudiced Policy: The Story of How the Federal Government Promised - and Undermined - Fair Housing
- 2024 Fair Housing Trends Report - PDF
- 2023 Fair Housing Trends Report
10. Place-Based Strategies
- Just City Lab
- Just Communities Protocol
- Purpose Built Communities
- Whole Blocks, Whole City: Reclaiming Vacant Property Throughout Baltimore
11. Emerging Approaches
Reparatory Justice and Housing Policy
- 2024 Cease Harm: Impacting the African American Community Comprehensive Audit - PDF
- Grounding Justice: Toward Reparative Spatial Futures in Land and Housing
- Evanston’s Historic Reparations Program: A 101 Guide | Evanston Roundtable
- The Case for Reparations
Social Housing
- A National Homes Guarantee - PDF
- Social Housing For All: A Vision For Thriving Communities, Renter Power, and Racial Justice - PDF
- Gambling with Homes, or Investing in Communities - PDF
- Building Our Future: Grassroots Reflections on Social Housing