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To create a new Assessment of Fair Housing, the City of Boston’s enlisted the Affirmatively Further Fair Housing (AFFH) Community Advisory Committee (CAC) which engaged in an extensive 16-month community outreach effort, involving public testimony, fourteen community meetings and a citywide...
City-of-Boston-Assessment-of-Fair-Housing-2023.pdf
In the United States, access to housing and property ownership is deeply rooted in racial inequity. Racist ideologies about land ownership have shaped our housing and land use systems, contributing to today’s housing crisis. These briefs highlight nine root causes and key factors behind these...
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The 2025 Comprehensive Plan for Brooklyn is a roadmap for long-term, equitable growth across the borough. The 2025 Plan offers a deep analysis of existing inequities in the borough and a set of policy priorities that outline a blueprint for ensuring every Brooklynite is healthy, housed, and...
The_Comprehensive_Plan_for_Brooklyn_2025_pages-1.pdf
Session Description: For this GARE Conversation, we were joined by organizers working to support federal workers for a deep-dive conversation on the dismantling of civil rights by the current administration. Objectives: Understand the current state of civil rights protections...
GMT20260115-190415_Recording.cutfile.20260209175758336_640x360.mp4
Comprehensive plans are essential to guiding growth in our communities closing racial disparities in our housing and land use systems. Race Forward and GARE's latest policy brief presents case studies from local planning departments in the GARE Network working collaboratively with communities to...
Root Solutions for Housing and Land Justice.pdf
Arlington County (VA) passed a series of “missing middle housing” ordinances allowing up to six units on a residential lot. Prior to this legislation only single-detached homes were permitted in 79% of the County’s residential land area. Single detached homes are often the most expensive form of...
PCitem_4_MMH_Mar623.pdf
In 2024, the San Jose City Council adopted the Tenant Preferences Program to set aside 35% of affordable apartments funded with City funds for lower-income applicants who live in areas with high displacement pressures or who already live in the neighborhood of a particular affordable housing...
San Jose Preference Policy.pdf
In 2023, the Berkely City Council passed the Affordable Housing Preference Policy to address historical racial injustices, particularly for the Black community, who have been disproportionately impacted by exclusionary housing policies. The policy establishes seven preferences designed to assist...
7_11_2023; CLK - Agenda Packet (Public); Health, Housing and Community Services; ; REGULAR; Referral Response_ Affordable Housing Preference Policy for Rental Housing Created Through the Below Mar.pdf
The City of Evanston passed a reparations program in the form of payments for housing related expenses. The program provides 25,000 for home ownership, home improvement, and mortgage assistance. The next phase of the program provides reperations in the form of direct cash payments. In...
In 2023, City of Louisville worked with tenant organizations and residents of historically Black neighborhoods to design the City's Anti-Displacement Law. This law blocks government resources from supporting residential development without housing that is affordable for households in the...
Louisville KY Anti-Displacement Law.pdf
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