Just Communities Tools and Resources
Just Communities Tools and Resources
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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
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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
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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
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Single family housing: Wealth creation
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Multifamily housing: Access to opportunity and reinvestment
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Emerging and underrepresented developers
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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
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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
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Fair housing
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Place-based strategies
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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
Racial equity and public finance
Narrative change
