All Tools

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  Access to Healthy Food

  Focuses on four tools -- Grocery Store Dev., Corner Stores, Farmers Markets, and Urban Ag. and Community Gardens -- that help increase access to healthy, fresh, affordable food. (Created January 2010)

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  Affordable Housing Development 101

  This umbrella tool introduces advocates to affordable housing strategies and helps them match their goals with appropriate tools. (Created January 2007)

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  Brownfields

  Encourages redevelopment of brownfields -- abandoned, idled, or underutilized commercial or industrial sites. (Created July 2007)

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  Community Strategies to Prevent Asthma

  Strategies and resources for improving air quality in homes, in schools, and outdoors. (Created December 2008)

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  CDCs with Resident Shareholders

  Offers low-income residents the opportunity to own equity in real estate projects spearheaded by CDCs. (Created November 2001)

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  Code Enforcement

  Can be an important tool for protecting tenants. (Created March 2002)

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  Commercial Linkage Strategies

  A range of programs and fees that tie economic development to the construction of affordable housing. (Created July 2002)

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  Commercial Stabilization

  Techniques employed by organizations to preserve cultural organizations and longstanding commercial enterprises that define the historic character of communities. (Created July 2002)

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  Community Land Trusts

  This alternative property ownership model encourages permanent affordability and wealth-building. (Created June 2001)

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  Community Mapping

  Mapping can be used to advocate for community benefits, convey development opportunities, track vacant properties, and more. (Created April 2001)

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  Community Reinvestment Act

  Congressional mandate that financial institutions help meet credit needs of the communities in which they operate. (Created November 2001)

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  Cooperative Ownership Models

  Co-op models targeted to low- income residents can offer financial benefits and experience in running a democratically- controlled enterprise. (Created February 2002)

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  Corner Stores

  Offers residents, policymakers, business leaders, and advocates ideas and strategies for improving small stores in underserved communities. (Created May 2010)

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  Developers Exactions

  Requires new commercial developments to contribute fees to the development of affordable housing, community services and infrastructure. (Created February 2002)

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  Employer-Assisted Housing

  Most EAH programs provides rental assistance or increases the housing in the surrounding community for an employer's workers. (Created October 2007)

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  Expiring Use: Retention of Subsidized Housing

  Preserve affordable rental units by protecting subsidized housing units with expiring contracts. (Created August 2002)

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  Farmers Market

  Details the challenges associated with starting and sustaining farmers' markets in low-income communities of color. (Created 2010)

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  Foreclosed Properties

  Use this tool to steer neighborhoods back to sustainable recovery after foreclosure processes are well underway. (Created July 2009)

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  Grocery Stores

  Highlights a number of innovative strategies to help address the food access challenges and provides guidance for attracting fresh food retail into underserved communities.  (Created 2010)

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  Housing Trust Funds

  Public funds, established by legislation, ordinance or resolution, to receive specific revenues dedicated to affordable housing development. (Created June 2001)

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  Inclusionary Zoning

  Land use regulation mandating a percentage (usually 15-20%) of the housing units in all larger projects be affordable to people of low and moderate incomes. (Created 2003) 

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  Infill Incentives

  Infill incentives can produce new housing units, reduce blight, preserve open space, reduce traffic, and encourage retail development that serves the needs of existing residents. (Created March 2002)

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  Just Cause Eviction Controls

  Implement these laws to protect renters against being unfairly evicted by landlords who want to capitalize on the rental/housing market. (Created March 2002)

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  Limited Equity Housing Cooperatives

  A partnership in which residents collectively own and control their housing. (Created July 2001)

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  Living Wage Provisions

  Ordinances that ensure the employees of public/private contractors receiving public sector funding, and public employees are paid wages at pace with regional cost of living measures. (Created December 2001)

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  Local Food Procurement

  How and from whom food is purchased by an organization and institution (Created 2015)

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  Minority Contracting

  Ensures that healthy local businesses owned by people of color are a basic component of strong, sustainable communities. (Created August 2002)

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  Real Estate Transfer Taxes

  Techniques through which tax regulations can limit two destabilizing practices in low- and moderate-income communities: delinquency and speculation. (Created January 2003)

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  Rent Control

  Protections to slow the pace of rapidly escalating rental prices. (Created December 2001)

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  Resident-Owned CDFIs

  Resident-owned community financial institutions build assets for low-income residents. (Created February 2002)

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  Transit Oriented Development

  How to implement TOD -- mixed-use, pedestrian-oriented communities located around public transit stations -- in a way that achieves equity goals. (Created April 2008)

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  Urban Agriculture and Community Gardens

  Addresses urban agriculture efforts focused on serving low-income communities and communities of color. (Created 2010)