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Reclaiming Resilience: How Small Shifts in City Hall Can Empower Communities

October 13, 2025

Across the country, communities of color are pioneering resilience in real time—transforming vacant lots into food forests, converting churches into...

Building Just Communities: A Year of Power and Progress

September 30, 2025

In neighborhoods across Atlanta, community gardens are thriving, once-polluted creeks are being restored, and legacy residents are holding their ground...

Architecture & Design

The ROI of Community-First Development for City Planners

September 12, 2025

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

Regenerative Design and Urban Development

September 10, 2025

Urban development is at a crossroads. As cities grapple with the compounding challenges of climate change, social inequity, and economic...

How to Future-Proof Your City Without Gentrification

September 3, 2025

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

From Theory to Practice: The Just Communities Protocol

July 18, 2025

Insight from a Practitioner Through my career I have worked with excellent interdisciplinary design and client teams to generate...

Architecture & Design

Culture Is Infrastructure. So Is Justice.

June 12, 2025

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

Partner Spotlight: Justice & Sustainability Associates

April 22, 2025

In an era of rapid urbanization and complex community challenges, Justice & Sustainability Associates (JSA) stands out as a leader...

Civic & Community Engagement

The Time for Action: Five Keys to Integrate EcoDistricts into Cities

February 23, 2021

We all have a right to know what is in the air we breathe, in the water we drink, and...

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Clearing The Way: How City Managers Can Advance Justice-Led Resilience

Clearing the Way

Across the country, communities of color are leading grassroots resilience efforts—from food sovereignty and land trusts to cultural preservation and cooperative enterprises—often without support from local governments. This resource outlines three strategic shifts municipalities can make to align with that leadership: redesigning procurement to include community-based organizations, leveraging land use tools to enable grassroots infrastructure, and launching microgrant programs that prioritize access over paperwork. These approaches offer low-barrier ways to translate vision into policy and support regenerative, justice-rooted transformation.

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