CityHealth

What is an Affordable Housing Trust, and how is it different from a Community Land Trust? In this new explainer, we break down the key differences between the two trusts, and their benefits to housing in your community. Learn more:?https://lnkd.in/ePwST_Q3

Whether you’re a policymaker, advocate, or stakeholder, our new #CompleteStreets policy action guide can help you design and implement a strong and equitable policy that builds safer and more accessible streets for all. Download the guide, created in partnership with Smart Growth America, to find 11 easy steps to crafting your city’s policy: https://lnkd.in/e7d3tFBC

By October 10, make sure to walk to your favorite park! It's National Walk to a Park Day and we want to see your local parks through your lens. Take a picture, upload it to Trust for Public Land's page at www.tpl.org/walk, and help them secure vital funding to put parks in reach of more people. Your photo could shape the future of our recreational spaces! #WalkToAParkDay Learn more about National Walk to a Park Day: www.tpl.org/walk

Whether you choose to walk, bike, roll, or drive, you deserve to move safely and easily around your city. Complete Streets—an approach to planning, designing, and maintaining our streets that enables access and safety for people of all ages and abilities—can help ensure that right. Download our new policy action guide, created in partnership with Smart Growth America, to learn how your city can enact or strengthen its own Complete Streets policy: https://lnkd.in/e7d3tFBC

Public #PreK programs provide a safe place for children to learn, play, and grow—while also benefiting their health both directly and indirectly. Here's how cities are implementing policy to ensure more children have access to early education: https://lnkd.in/gb98_b6P

A neighborhood’s access to alcohol — as characterized by the number and density of alcohol outlets located there — can have serious consequences for the health outcomes of residents. That’s why at CityHealth, we support cities in implementing policies that limit the impact of alcohol on their communities, by reducing the hours alcohol can be sold or requiring minimum distances between alcohol outlets and parks. https://lnkd.in/e-b-HeBc

City governments play a vital role in their communities, both as major employers and as providers of a wide variety of services to residents, including the food served on city properties like parks, shelters, and hospitals. That’s why it’s vital that cities work to provide equitable access to healthy food across public spaces to reduce health disparities and advance nutrition outcomes for all residents. In our new blog, we partnered with the Center for Science in the Public Interest to explore how cities are centering equity in Healthy Food Purchasing policies using strategies like procuring food from smaller vendors and expanding access to culturally appropriate foods. Read our blog here: https://lnkd.in/eecu8muw

Recently, our partners at Smart Growth America released a report showing that our roads are “dangerous by design.” The report finds that 7,522 people were struck and killed while walking in 2022, an average of more than 20 per day. This represents a 40-year high for pedestrian fatalities, and a 75% increase in deaths since 2010. Every person deserves to get around their cities safely, which is why metro areas must continue to invest in Complete Streets policies, which create roads and sidewalks that are safer and more accessible for every resident. Explore the report: https://lnkd.in/eD3dNTZ

Tobacco companies have used aggressive advertising tactics to historically target vulnerable populations like youth, people of color, and people with low incomes. Policies that restrict the sale of Flavored Tobacco products help to reduce the health risks associated with their marketing. https://lnkd.in/ewTreSM5

Is your community interested in designing or refining a Healthy Rental Housing policy? Join us and Enterprise Community Partners for a webinar this Wednesday, September 11 at 2:00 pm ET for expert guidance on implementing a strong policy that can help to keep renters safe and healthy in their homes. Register today! https://lnkd.in/eSVJfqRb