To create a context for equitable development while preventing displacement of residents:

Getting Started: Securing Your Community

• Understand the economic, political, and social forces at work
• Assess, map, and analyze the potential for displacement
• Support resident participation in land use planning that envisions community-wide economic improvement
• Stabilize current residents in communities experiencing increases in property values
• Expand the range of housing not susceptible to the commercial market through permanent affordability mechanisms
  
• Promote diverse homeownership opportunities for existing residents
  
• Plan for newcomers to promote a diverse community mix and ensure affordability
  
• Target income and asset strategies to stabilize current residents
  
• Anchor culturally-rooted commercial, nonprofit and arts organizations in mixed income communities
  

Advancing Regional Equity: Moving Beyond the Neighborhood

• Build public awareness of the issues and proposed solutions among key players
  
• Advocate mixed-income development at every turn and across jurisdictions
  
• Make environmental justice and social equity central components of regional development
  
• Integrate solutions to public transit, affordable housing, workforce development, and open space issues
  
• Connect planning for transit investment and affordable housing development. Utilize equity criteria to guide new investment
  
• Identify key incentives for jurisdictions to adopt mixed income housing practices
  
• Secure valuable anti-discrimination practices to ensure fair housing.
  
• Tie affordable housing production to commercial growth
  
• Strengthen regional cooperation in community and economic development planning
  
• Craft policies to engage local, regional, state, and federal governments in addressing gentrification pressures