The Just Communities Blog

The ROI of Community-First Development for City Planners

City leaders are under pressure to do more with less. Community‑first development, where residents help shape priorities and share in...

How to Future-Proof Your City Without Gentrification

Cities across the country are grappling with a key challenge: how to plan for a thriving future without displacing the...

Culture Is Infrastructure. So Is Justice.

There’s a specific kind of grief that comes with watching your community change around you. Not the kind that comes...

Slavic Village in Cleveland Becomes the 9th EcoDistricts Certified Community

Broadway-Slavic Village is a place where grit meets green. Our most valuable asset is our people, from the small business...

Just Communities: The Evolution of EcoDistricts

Today is a big day for those of us who have poured our hearts into building and growing the EcoDistricts...

Cross-sector partners join forces to make Cleveland home of the first hospital-anchored certified EcoDistrict

Government, philanthropy, and resident leaders teamed with The MetroHealth System in the creation of the Clark-Fulton/MetroHealth EcoDistrict, implementing a paradigm...

A Decade of Building Community in San Francisco’s Chinatown

In 2017-2018, I hit two milestones in my life. The first was my 10-year anniversary of doing place-based, community-based planning...

First Steps Towards Integrating EcoDistricts Approaches in New York's Affordable Housing

In the boredom of last year’s quarantine, I stumbled in Teva’s e-mail: Stronger Together – […] It’s times like these...