Low Income Populations

Smart Growth America is a nationwide coalition promoting a better way to grow: one that protects open space, revitalizes neighborhoods, keeps housing affordable, and provides more transportation choices.

This toolkit provides a thorough education about a comprehensive set of policy options to advance economic and social equity. Some of them support community design that promotes physical activity.

This web page reviews work by a number of local agencies that have converted anti-crime design concepts into local codes and guidelines for new development and redevelopment. It also includes a 4-page fact sheet that summarizes research and provides case study examples of how design and local codes can reduce crime around multifamily housing.

The Center for Community Change is committed to reducing poverty and rebuilding low income communities. To do this, we help people to develop the skills and resources they need to improve their communities as well as change policies and institutions that adversely affect their lives. We believe that poor people themselves

The Environmental Justice Resource Center (EJRC) at Clark Atlanta University serves as a research, policy, and information clearinghouse on issues related to environmental justice, race and the environment, civil rights, facility siting, land use planning, brownfields, transportation equity, suburban sprawl, and Smart Growth. The overall goal of the center is to assist, support, train, and educate people of color students, professionals, and grassroots community leaders with the goal of facilitating their inclusion into the mainstream of environmental decision-making. The center is multi-disciplinary in its focus and approach. It serves as a bridge among the social and behavioral sciences, natural and physical sciences, engineering, management, and legal disciplines to solve environmental problems.

The NNC is a convener of people and organizations concerned about neighborhoods, a conduit of information about programs and policies, and an advocate for neighborhoods and community and neighborhood-based organizations.

PolicyLink is a national nonprofit research, communications, capacity building, and advocacy organization working to advance policies to achieve economic and social equity. PolicyLink collaborates with a broad range of partners to implement strategies to ensure that everyone

KnowlegePlex is a portal to a broad array of affordable housing and community development resources.

This study adds to a growing evidence base of environmental correlates of obesity and makes a unique contribution regarding rural communities. If causality can be established, environmental interventions that target obesogenic neighborhood features may reduce the prevalence of obesity at the population level.

The authors examine the 2001 Nationwide Household Travel Survey (NHTS) and compares it to the results of previous Nationwide Personal Transportation Surveys.