Applied Economics Clinic’s Post

I am grateful to share new research published in collaboration with Katherine Idziorek, PhD, AICP titled, "Achieving 10-Min Neighborhoods in Underinvested Communities: Understanding Transportation Opportunities and Challenges through Resident Stories." In this study we focus on Charlotte, NC's 10 minute neighborhood policy to learn from residents living in historically underinvested communities and the current challenges and barriers they face getting to important services and amenities (grocery stores, clinics, schools, etc). Our results identify important destinations often overlooked in chrono-urbanism policy goals and highlight ways in which layered transportation barriers contribute to a condition of time poverty and transportation disadvantage for many residents. We conclude with recommendations to guide planners in contextualizing chrono-urbanism policy goals to better serve residents of underinvested urban communities. Check out our article! https://lnkd.in/ead3KHQa

This is a very important graphic that I believe represents what happens in most cities. The most important quote I heard long ago is that the world is run by those who show up. Problem is, cities have created and perfected a system where only those with the ability to show up run the world. We must fix the system in cities to ensure equitable participation, especially surrounding public hearings and decision making in planning and zoning. Try changing it, and the existing participants are likely the same folks who will come and oppose it.

In June, Big Water hosted a workshop on integrating community economic development activities with partners from the Urban Institute and National American Indian Housing Council as part of the U.S. Economic Development Administration funded Indigenous Economic Development Community of Practice (https://lnkd.in/gverNsPz). During the workshop, participants mapped fictional community assets to practice incorporating all the sectors of economic development into holistic planning processes.   We want to thank all 100 tribal housing and economic development practitioners who participated in this 4-hour workshop. We are particularly thankful for our panelists and subject matter experts who served as keystones leading conversations and answering questions: Joel Smith, Lorna Fogg, Josh Jackson, Lisa Serrano, Cheryl Cloud, Tedd Buelow, Adam Hasz, and Onna LeBeau.   As tribes work on projects to grow and improve their communities, it is essential that planning processes are collaborative and holistic, taking input and ideas from stakeholders across various sectors. Some key takeaways we heard from experts and participants include:   ▶ Housing in integrally connected to all other aspects of economic development ▶ Mapping all community assets develops a better foundation for future funding efforts ▶ Federal Agencies such as the USDA, HUD, BIA, Department of the Treasury, and DOE have committed to working together to make grant opportunities more accessible to Tribes ▶ Energy projects are potential enterprises for Tribes that offer potential jobs, revenue and cost savings while contributing to natural resource conservation   To read more about this critical ongoing conversation and access workshop materials, visit the Indigenous CoP website: [https://lnkd.in/e6pbVA8s]

What 528 does in great help is helping Rural Tertiary Communities to grow in strong ways to help communities get more housing, more multifamily, more mixed use, more retail, more hotels, more living space apartments, bringing more jobs, more companies, and more students, and increasing tax revenue for the communities as NEEDED for many years? And helping in consulting is Where is Your Community? Overview for them and the emergence of intelligent community growth and Putting Smart Growth to Work in Rural Communities and Small Towns! Development and retail and GROWTH! We always "LOOK" to help these Cities, Towns and our NATION and ALWAYS Looking to HELP!!!!!

The Town of Riverview is in the process of creating and implementing a new Community Economic Development Strategy. The foundation of the proposed strategy is built on the values of collaboration, creativity, diversity, and vitality so that we can all move Riverview closer to becoming a "welcoming and prosperous community for all.”   Community members are invited to join us for a public consultation and presentation of the preliminary strategy and be a part of Riverview’s evolution! We would also encourage all participants to take a few minutes, whether or not you plan to attend a session, to fill out the Community Economic Development Strategy online survey to capture your feedback.  https://ow.ly/3AhN50S7EbW Here are the public consultation details: 🤷♂️ What: Community Economic Development Strategy 📅 When: Thursday, June 20th, 12 p.m. and/or 7 p.m.   ⏱️ How Long: 2 hours  📍 Where: Council Chambers, Riverview Town Hall, 30 Honour House Court 🍪 Snacks: You can count on it!   To prepare for this session, some context is important! Please consult the news article on our website titled “Community Voices Wanted: Help Shape Riverview’s Economic Runway” to get familiar with the different objectives of the Municipal Plan and the Community Economic Development Strategy. By working together, these plans ensure that as our town grows, it does so in a way that’s well-organized, sustainable, and economically viable, while providing the services and quality of life we all enjoy. 

Wow, feeling so lucky and excited to start this next project! Bernadette Baird-Zars and I have received an NSF grant to use cell phone mobility data to study a central principle underlying our subsidized affordable housing policy in the US - that proximity and "opportunity" neighborhoods lead to better socioeconomic outcomes and social integration. We'll be using the human mobility data to study visitations and integration in higher opportunity neighborhoods across the country with high percentages of subsidized affordable housing to ask: How do the daily mobility patterns of residents of subsidized housing adhere to or defy expectations of social and spatial integration? We'll also be conducting case studies in areas that engender high rates of social and structural integration to ask: What spatial, institutional, social and physical characteristics of the places and surrounding geographies appear to enable higher instances of the measurements of integration?  https://lnkd.in/ecchgkF3

🚨🚨🚨🏘️📖 today and with great pleasure Localis (think tank) publishes an essay collection "Building by consent: housing by popular demand" https://lnkd.in/ehBi-5Zh The premise to the collection is that while popular consent to development won’t by itself provide the total answer to the agenda per se, it should, as a factor, however, prove to be a crucial stepping stone to success. So, with a view to the near future and the start of the next political cycle, Localis has asked a wide range of policy experts, local government leaders and industry bodies, to sketch their plan for what a successful planning system that generates community support for development might look like. The contributors to Localis’s essay collection set out ideas for a hope-filled future in which the new homes and developments our country needs might be built in harmony with existing communities and in line with the contours of place. Our fourteen essays cover a lot of ground from diverse experiences and backgrounds, as planners, local politicians, policymakers and developers and covering contexts from the rural to the very urban, greenfield to brownfield. What unites them is a need for planning that is well-resourced to deliver the quality of results and outcomes we want to see, strategic in scope to integrate at scale and engaging and empathetic enough to carry local populations with them. 👏👏👏👏👏 👏👏many thanks to all our contributors and essaysists. 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 Catriona Riddell | Samer Bagaeen FRICS MRTPI (Prof.) | Richard Blyth Royal Town Planning Institute | Andrew Taylor FRTPI Vistry Group | Andy von Bradsky | Cllr Darren Rodwell leader London Borough of Barking and Dagenham & Local Government Association housing spokesperson | Cllr Linda Taylor leader Cornwall Council & vice chair LGA Conservatives | Joe Harris leader LGA Liberal Democrats Group | Stephen Jones director Core Cities UK | Samuel Chapman-Allen chairman District Councils' Network | Cllr Sinead Mooney Surrey County Council | Paul Miner CPRE The countryside charity | Kerry Booth Rural Services Network | Anna Clarke The Housing Forum Especial thanks to Andrew Taylor FRTPI & Vistry Group for kindly sponsoring our collection 👏👏👏👏

In case you missed it live, you can watch Urban Institute and Policies for Action’s panel, "Policies to Expand Equity-Oriented Affordable Housing: Opportunities and Cautions from Recent Research" here. Their expert panelists discussed affordable housing as a crucial social determinant of health, and explored how researchers, policymakers, and stakeholders can improve equity. https://lnkd.in/esF-tMwK

"Transit by itself cannot be expected to heal the legacy of decades of racist land use and real estate policies. Only redevelopment that reduces the isolation of low-income and minority areas, and adds more jobs and educational opportunities near them, can do that...A new vision will need to create a set of standards that will accurately reflect the real goals that motivate support for public transit. These will surely include an equity goal that will be a counterweight to a ridership goal, because it will justify service expansions in disadvantaged areas despite their lower ridership potential. The balance between those competing goals will need to be chosen, as a political decision. But as always when there are tradeoffs, expanded funding makes it easier to do both." -Jarrett Walker It'll be interesting to monitor both service visions, especially as someone who's seen and ridden along the evolution of services over the last 30+ years and how access (and opportunities) needs to match demand (yes, 4-year old me read CTA maps as a hobby). https://lnkd.in/gsdwSnk4

As the housing crisis continues to affect communities nationwide, innovative solutions are more important than ever. Our latest blog post explores the potential of public housing designed for all income levels as a viable strategy to address this pressing issue. In this piece, we delve into how mixed-income public housing can create inclusive communities, promote social equity, and provide stable housing options for everyone. Discover the insights and implications of this approach as we look toward sustainable solutions for the future. Read the full article here: https://ift.tt/1exKVHX.