​​​1. Start Here: Just Communities Act Tools

• HB241/SB308 - Housing and Community Development - Just Communities Designation
• Just Communities: Frequently Asked Questions
• Separate and Unequal Neighborhoods: A Baseline Report for the Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development Division of Just Communities

2. Trauma-Informed Strategic Equity Plan Tools​

• How to Develop a Strategic Equity Plan in Four Steps | Winter 2023 | ArcNews
• Conceptual Model of Historic Trauma
• Root Causes of Housing and Land Injustice | Race Forward
• Trauma Informed Community Building: The Evolution of a Community Engagement Model in a Trauma Impacted Neighborhood
• Racial Equity Impact Assessment Toolkit
• Redlining and Neighborhood Health
• Unpacking Racial and Health Equity Impact Assessments: Legislation, Tools, and Strategies for Community-Centered Change - Network for Public Health Law
• Building a Housing Justice Framework
• Capital for Communities Scorecard | Urban Institute

3. Measurement and Policy Decision Tools

• Using a Racial Equity Scorecard for Policy and Programs
• Racial Equity & Policy Toolkit
• Why Disaggregating Data by Race is Important for Racial Equity
• By the Numbers: Using Disaggregated Data to Inform Policies, Practices and Decision-making
• Oregon Housing and Community Services Racial Equity Tool
• Municipal Bond Racial and Social Equity Scorecard
• New York City Equitable Development Data Explorer
• Montgomery County Mapping Segregation Project
• Advancing Racial Equity in Housing and Community Development: An Anti-Racism Guide for Transformative Change
• Why Am I Always Being Researched?
• Funders Together to End Homelessness Policy Framework

4. Single Family Housing: Wealth Creation

• The N/NE Preference Policy
• A Long Road Home: A Racial Equity Analysis of Homeownership Support Programs in Massachusetts
• Washington State Housing Finance Commission Covenant Homeownership Program
  • Washington Gov. Ferguson Expands Law Helping First Time Minority Homebuyers
• Fannie Mae Equitable Housing Finance Plan
• HMDA Longitudinal Dataset (1981 - 2021)
• Opportunity Zones LMI Map

5. Multifamily Housing: Access to Opportunity and Reinvestment

• Chicago Department of Housing Racial Equity Impact Assessment of the Qualified Allocation Plan
  • City of Chicago RACIAL EQUITY ACTION PLAN Department of Housing (DOH)
  • Racial Equity Impact Assessment Qualified Allocation Plan - ProGov21
• Toward an Anti-Racist Paradigm in Community Development: High-Level Research Findings
• Fair Housing and Community Development: Time to Come Together

6. Emerging and Underrepresented Developers

• Building Community Wealth: Shifting Power and Capital in Real Estate Finance
• Affordable Housing Investors Council DEI Analysis of Underwriting Guidelines
• Redefining Risk in Service of Mission: Lending Cases from Bay Area LISC

7. Community Engagement, Control, and Ownership

• Community Investment Trust: Building Community Ownership One Investor at a Time
• Arnstein’s Ladder of Citizen Participation
• The Emerging Solidarity Economy: A Primer on Community Ownership of Real Estate
• Stories + Data = Power: Democratizing Urban Planning and Development
• The Boards and Commissions Leadership Institute: A Path to Co-Governance

8. Special Populations

• Tlaib, Kamlager-Dove Introduce Resolution on Juneteenth to Honor, Preserve, and Invest in Freedmen’s Settlements
• All-Black Towns Across America: Life Was Hard but Full of Promise
• Not Just Ramps–Disability and Housing Justice
• Toward Safety: Understanding Intimate Partner Violence and Homelessness | Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative
• ‘A Place That’s Safe’: Housing for Trans People, by Trans People
• Diverting Foster Youth From Homelessness
• Trauma-Informed Housing

9. Fair Housing

• Lofty Rhetoric, Prejudiced Policy: The Story of How the Federal Government Promised - and Undermined - Fair Housing
• 2024 Fair Housing Trends Report
• 2023 Fair Housing Trends Report

10. Place-Based Strategies

• Just City Lab
• Just Communities Protocol
• Purpose Built Communities
• Whole Blocks, Whole City: Reclaiming Vacant Property Throughout Baltimore

​11. Emerging Approaches

Reparatory Justice and Housing Policy

• 2024 Cease Harm: Impacting the African American Community Comprehensive Audit
• Grounding Justice: Toward Reparative Spatial Futures in Land and Housing
• Evanston’s Historic Reparations Program: A 101 Guide | Evanston Roundtable
• The Case for Reparations

Social Housing

• A National Homes Guarantee
• Social Housing For All: A Vision For Thriving Communities, Renter Power, and Racial Justice
• Gambling with Homes, or Investing in Communities
• Building Our Future: Grassroots Reflections on Social Housing

Racial Equity and Public Finance

• Municipal Bond Markets & Racial Equity: A Framework
• Racial Equity and Bond Markets

Narrative Change

• Housing is a Basic Human Need: A Messaging Guide for Housing Justice
• PolicyLink Housing Justice Narrative Toolkit
• Housing Narrative Lab