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Root Solutions for Housing and Land Justice: Affordable Housing Funding Practices

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

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The GARE Approach - Visualize, Normalize, Organize, and Operationalize

The GARE Approach is an organizational change framework with four interlocking elements – Visualize, Normalize, Organize, and Operationalize - that serves as a practical guide for government staff to advance racial equity outcomes. It helps organizations embed racial equity into everyday...

The GARE Approach Visualize, Normalize, Organize, Operationalize.pdf

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Building Root Solutions for Public Safety

“Like the maple, leaders are the first to offer their gifts. It reminds the whole community that leadership is rooted not in power and authority, but in service and wisdom." – Robin Wall Kimmer, Braiding Sweetgrass Building Root Solutions for Public Safety seeks to provide...

Root Solutions Brief_Final_LiveLinks.pdf

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GARE Member Jurisdictions Show How Teamwork Makes the Dream Work: Part Two

In the second installment of our two-part series, we continue to highlight Racial Equity Core Teams as drivers of change. Building a Racial Equity Core Team is a dynamic process. The team is often initially led by a Racial Equity Officer/Director, and as capacity expands, people increasingly...

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The People Behind the Movement: Anne Stuhldreher

The City of San Francisco is Working Towards the Elimination of Fines and Fees A Conversation with The Financial Justice Project’s Director, Anne Stuhldreher. Q: Please describe briefly what you do as the Director of the Financial Justice Project. Anne: As far as I’m...

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Washtenaw County Unanimously Passes Equity Policy

Washtenaw County, Michigan has some issues familiar to many GARE communities. We are fairly wealthy, considered top notch for education (thanks to The University of Michigan and Eastern Michigan University), and generally provide a good quality of life. But that’s only if you look on the surface...