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April 11, 2024
Why Minnesota Needs to Protect the 2040 Plan
Minnesota needs to protect the 2040 Plan to maintain its position as a national leader in housing supply and zoning reform, which is crucial for addressing the housing attainability crisis and ensuring housing equity and affordability across the state. -
March 21, 2024
Housing Assistance and Mental Health: Testing the Direct Association
Uncovering JAPA: HUD two housing program: vouchers for private landlords and public housing. -
March 11, 2024
Women Advocates for Quality Housing
Two women were early trailblazers in ensuring the availability of safe, quality and affordable housing. -
January 19, 2024
60 Years of Racial Equity in Urban Planning
Uncovering JAPA: Insightful analysis about racial equity planning to inform planning practitioners' efforts to advance racial and social justice. -
January 17, 2024
Reconnecting a City to its Cherokee Culture Through Planning
How an architecture firm connected with the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians to craft a downtown master plan in Cherokee, North Carolina. -
January 8, 2024
The AARP Livability Index Platform: A Planning Resource for Livable Communities
Sponsored content from AARP. Through the AARP Livability IndexTM platform and other livable community resources, AARP seeks to support efforts by planners and APA to help inform policy, increase community awareness and participation, and improve the quality of life for people of all ages. -
December 21, 2023
Prioritizing Environmental Justice in Comprehensive Planning
Uncovering JAPA: California plans are analyzed for environmental justice (EJ) incorporation, revealing advancements in BIPOC communities while underscoring the absence of an explicit racial focus. -
December 20, 2023
Placemaking by Shredding
Florida intergovernmental agency's Skateable Art Park transforms unused space into skaters’ dream. -
December 20, 2023
The Impact of Infrastructure and Workforce Challenges on Local Housing Supply
The Housing Supply Accelerator recently concluded its series of convenings in Atlanta, focused on the need to align infrastructure investments with housing development and address the shortage of construction workers through strategic initiatives. -
December 14, 2023
Restorative Pathways: Navigating Healing and Justice in Communities Affected by Spatial Trauma
Uncovering JAPA: Addressing spatial trauma in Black and brown communities, urging today's planners to embrace equitable spatial development through healing approaches. -
December 11, 2023
Can Zoning Save Naturally Occurring Affordable Housing (NOAH)?
Spotlight on Zoning Practice: What role can zoning play in shielding naturally occurring affordable housing from redevelopment? -
November 17, 2023
Improving Inclusivity of Urban Governance
Uncovering JAPA: Nurturing the culture of a governing body can make it more inclusive for everyone. -
November 9, 2023
The Impact of Prejudice Data on Advancing Equitable Planning Practices
Uncovering JAPA: Understanding the impact of the Mapping Prejudice project on advancing more equitable planning policies and practices. -
November 2, 2023
Impact of Low-Cost Housing Interventions
Uncovering JAPA: The positive impact of low-cost housing remediations led to reduced blight and crime in Philadelphia. -
October 27, 2023
Examining the Role of Land Use and Regulations in Housing Development
A recap of the third convening for the Housing Supply Accelerator focusing on examining the role of regulatory processes in facilitating housing production to address shortages. -
October 27, 2023
Strategies for Creating More Just and Equitable Societies
Uncovering JAPA: This viewpoint explores three aforementioned strategies that can be used to start dismantling the existing system in favor of a more just system that that works for everyone. -
October 23, 2023
Investing and Rejuvenating Historic All-Black Towns
Equity in Practice: Weekend festival focuses on helping historical all-Black towns survive and thrive. -
October 20, 2023
Dissecting 30 Years of Black Urbanist Thought in Urban Planning
Uncovering JAPA: Analysis confirms planning journals and practitioners have not focused on Black voices and Black urbanism for nearly three decades. -
October 18, 2023
Three Governors Issue Executive Orders on Housing to Increase Supply
Governors of Colorado, New York, and Hawaii have exercised their executive powers to implement various levels of zoning reform within their states. -
October 13, 2023
No State Immune to Housing Supply Shortage
A new report, sponsored by APA, finds that the nation's housing supply shortage is getting worse, faster — especially for small towns and suburban communities that face high housing demand in the aftermath of the pandemic. -
October 12, 2023
A New Tool for Assessing Equity in Health Impact Assessments
Uncovering JAPA: A new approach to ensuring racial and ethnic equity are advanced in health impact assessments (HIAs). -
September 12, 2023
Housing Finance Takes Focus at Most Recent Housing Supply Accelerator Convening
The second Housing Supply Accelerator convening held in Tacoma, Washington, focused on housing finance, including filling the information gap, public-private partnerships, and utilizing federal funding and programs. -
August 31, 2023
Addressing Racial Harms Through Reparative Planning
Uncovering JAPA: A framework that provides theory and practice for planners working toward urban justice. -
August 14, 2023
Whose Status Quo Should Zoning Protect?
Spotlight on Zoning Practice: How can zoning protect historically disadvantaged and vulnerable neighborhoods and business districts? -
August 10, 2023
Using Reparative Planning to Address Infrastructural Systems
Uncovering JAPA: ACT-LA aims to apply a divest-invest approach to stopping systems and practices that have caused harm. -
August 3, 2023
Black Counternarratives in Planning History
Uncovering JAPA: Understanding planning history from the perspective of those oppressed by traditional planning ensures the oppressed are no longer dismissed as passive victims but active players in their lives and communities. -
July 13, 2023
SHELTER: A Redistributive Affordable Housing Policy
Uncovering JAPA: Plan to reuse existing revenues to fund innovative housing policy reforms. -
July 10, 2023
Small Churches Equal Big Opportunity
Spotlight on Zoning Practice: Does your zoning allow new housing on faith-based land? -
June 21, 2023
Three Chicago Housing Developments Meeting Community Needs
Members of the Housing Supply Accelerator Steering Committee tour three housing developments on Chicago's south and west sides to see innovation at work. -
June 21, 2023
Construction and Development Issues Take Focus at Latest Housing Supply Accelerator Convening
Recent Housing Supply Accelerator convening explored the various issues and opportunities related to construction and development of the nation's housing. -
June 13, 2023
Six LGBTQ+ Walking Tours
This June, learn about LGBTQ history while on your feet at one of these six historical walking tours. -
June 7, 2023
The Importance of Intergenerational Communities
Multigenerational and age-friendly communities create a vehicle to bring generations together; reduce age segregation and ageism; decrease social isolation, depression, and loneliness; and improve community infrastructure and facilities. -
June 6, 2023
New Habitat Restoration Tool Helps to Prioritize Equity
Equity in Practice: Fort Collins created a habitat equity tool that focuses not just on nature but people. -
June 1, 2023
Designing Age-Friendly Connectivity in Melbourne, Australia
Uncovering JAPA: Study finds it necessary for planners to take action to ensure the built environment becomes more age-friendly. -
May 31, 2023
An Activist Walking Guide to Philadelphia's Chinatown
A walking tour during NPC23 illustrates the opportunities and challenges facing Philadelphia's Chinatown. -
May 23, 2023
Immigrant and Refugee Empowerment is Social Justice
A walking tour during NPC23 highlighted the impact of local community groups as they advocate for API residents. -
May 5, 2023
Take 5: Celebrating Five Locations Honoring AAPI Heritage
Take 5: Travel the U.S. and learn about five places of significance that honor the heritage of Asian American and Pacific Islander community. -
April 27, 2023
Centering Equity in Planning and Public Health Collaborations
Uncovering JAPA: Without an equity focus, planning and public health collaborations can harm vulnerable communities or lead to ineffective policies. -
April 14, 2023
Planning for Neurodiversity: NPC23 Planners' Day of Service
Planners' Day of Service at NPC23 explored neurodiversity within the built environment and assembled Calm Kits for a local Philadelphia organization. -
March 30, 2023
Enforcing Asian Exclusion Through Design and Planning Regulations
Uncovering JAPA: Three cities in Los Angeles County developed stringent development controls to encourage Anglo or Spanish heritage in response to Asian newcomers. -
March 22, 2023
National Experts Join the Housing Supply Accelerator to Guide Meaningful Action
National experts appointed to help guide the Housing Supply Accelerator. -
March 2, 2023
Maximizing Affordable Housing Production Under Inclusionary Zoning
Uncovering JAPA: Authors aim to understand the effectiveness of different inclusionary zoning policies. -
January 12, 2023
Decriminalizing Vehicular Homelessness in Los Angeles
Uncovering JAPA: Restrictive vehicle ordinances do not reduce the prevalence of vehicular homelessness, but shift it to different communities. -
December 22, 2022
Removing Freeways and Healing Communities
Equity in Practice: The economic and community outcomes of removing Milwaukee's Park East Freeway. -
December 8, 2022
Increase Representation with Community Naming
Uncovering JAPA: A tool kit for planners to help increase representation in our cities through the practice of "community naming." -
November 22, 2022
Restorative Planning in Action: Lessons from Mound Up!
Equity in Practice: Community-led planning effort builds upon Memphis 3.0 to revitalize Orange Mound neighborhood. -
November 17, 2022
Restoring Pueblo Housing and Rebuilding Community Value
Equity in Practice: Owe'neh Bupingeh Preservation plan guides housing improvements according to cultural values. -
November 17, 2022
How to Integrate Climate Equity Into Planning
Uncovering JAPA: Apply three aspects of equity to make the climate action planning process more inclusive. -
November 9, 2022
Building Community Relationships Through Pop Ups
Equity in Practice: Champaign, Illinois, planners use a pop up park to create a stronger relationship with the Garden Hills neighborhood. -
October 14, 2022
Challenging Storytelling and Narratives That Reinforce Inequity
Uncovering JAPA: The risk of reproducing racist assumptions or narratives in planning.
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