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Smart growth is an approach to community design that connects housing, transportation, and land use to create healthy, prosperous, and resilient neighborhoods.
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Smart Growth America cultivates vibrant, sustainable communities with diverse living and transportation options, enhancing quality of life for all.
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Smart Growth America cultivates vibrant, sustainable communities with diverse living and transportation options, enhancing quality of life for all.
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Smart Growth America cultivates vibrant, sustainable communities with diverse living and transportation options, enhancing quality of life for all.
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Throughout the year, we host a number of in-person and virtual events covering topics related to public health, social equity, and climate resilience.
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Road to reconnections: Turning Reconnecting Communities plans into progress
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Low-income communities and communities of color have been and continue to be disproportionately harmed by our approach to transportation in the United States. To address the longstanding inequities caused by divisive infrastructure, USDOT distributed several billion dollars to over 200 projects through the Reconnecting Communities and Neighborhoods Grant Program and Neighborhood Access and Equity Grants. While some of these grants were awarded to projects that intended to heal divided communities, others went to highway expansions. To take a closer look at how the program has played out on the ground, including what’s working and what needs to be improved upon, the team at Transportation for America is putting together a panel to answer the question, “did the program achieve what it set out to?” Moderated by Beth Osborne, SGA’s Vice President of Transportation and Thriving Communities, the conversation in this panel breaks down what it actually takes to mend the disconnections caused by transportation infrastructure decisions. Explore the successes and learnings from the Reconnecting Communities Program with Christopher Coes, Former Acting Under Secretary of Transportation for Policy at U.S. Department of Transportation. Then, tune in for a discussion with community leaders doing the work on the ground to reconnect their communities.
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