The Third E: The Value of Social Equity for Sustainability Planning

1. Setting Our Course: Creating a Region of Opportunity through Equitable Transportation and Land Use Planning Fresno, CA October 6, 2011 The Third E: The Value of Social Equity for Sustainability Planning Jonathan London, Ph.D.

2. Social Equity and Smart Growth • We hold these truths… Unalienable right to “pursuit of happiness” • You can’t manage what you don’t measure • You are here: Importance of place-based metrics (urban/suburban/rural) • Bottom Line: A system is only as strong as its weakest link

3. Sustainability: Making Connections Housing Cultural Development Health Transportation Environmental Resources/ Quality Environment Economy Land Use/ Built Environment Equity Youth Development/ Education Economic Development/ Financial Assets

4. What makes for good indicators? • Is it relevant? • Does it relate to important values and goals • Is it understandable and usable? • To agencies and to social equity constituencies • Does it help us understand links between land use/transportation and social equity? • Is the data consistent and reliable? • Can it be used to compare over time and between places? • Do they help us understand conditions for both places and people?

5. SACOG: SB 375 and Social Equity • Social vulnerability index • Opportunity index • TPA screening • TPA planning • Environmental Justice analysis • MTP planning http://www.sacog.org/sustainable/working-groups/eqhousinghealth/ CRC Team: Chris Benner, BiditaTithi, Jonathan London

8. Basic Neighborhood Demographics

12. TPA Selection Analysis Equity Priorities: Cell # 1: (High likelihood of success/ high impact Cell # 3: Low likelihood of success but high impact

13. Health/ Housing/ Equity WG • Co-convened by Center for Regional Change, and the Sacramento Housing and Redevelopment Agency (SHRA) • 3 meetings over 2-month period • Over 30 community leaders and advocates: affordable housing, public health, social services, neighborhood associations, labor unions, civil rights, community economic development, elderly services, youth development, transportation, walkability, and environmental protection. • Paralleled consultation/ capacity-building with Coalition on Regional Equity

14. Work Group Process • Brainstorming: ID key factors of neighborhood vulnerability and opportunity • Refining: Feedback on proposed set of indicators. • Application: Presentation of final indices as basis for recommendations on TPA selection criteria

15. TPA Selection and Planning Sacramento: Fruitridgeand Stockton: Area has high proportion of immigrants and strong Asian concentration and high Hispanic concentration. Overall education levels quite low, with very high proportion of people with less than high school degree. The southern and eastern census tracts in this area have some of the highest vulnerability levels of any TPA areas under consideration, driven by high poverty levels, high proportions of unemployed (or out of the labor market), high proportions of linguistic isolation, and high proportions of businesses with declining sales. In terms of the opportunity index, tract 31.02 is the only tract with a higher than average score, driven primarily by high proportions of people not driving alone to work—the other tracts have average or below average scores. Priorities for equity-oriented development in the area might include focusing on employment opportunities.

16. San Joaquin Valley Cumulative Health Impacts Project

17. SJV CHIP: Mapping for Action! CRC Team: Jonathan London, Tara Zagofsky, Ganlin Huang

18. Cumulative Environmental Vulnerability Action Zones CEVAZ

19. Community Mapping: West Fresno

20. Pipeline to Youth Success Educational Success Physical/ Mental Health Youth Success Insulation Workforce Participation Social, Institutional, & Built Environments Civic Engagement

21. Team leads: Nancy Erbstein, Este Geraghty

23. Built Environment: Barriers to Health Youth populations that do not have reliable transportation are excluded… I would even venture to say that these are the youth that need the services most.  -- Galt Adult Ally The bike lane on Jefferson Blvd makes me feel like I’m going to get hit by a truck! “It can be very difficult for young people to get around West Sacramento” -- SacTown Heroes 23

24. C. Design Youth-Friendly Places Places and routes that are safe, welcoming, enjoyable, and connected “Youth” infrastructure (parks, school grounds) “Non-youth” infrastructure (housing, economic development, transportation) ACTION Next Steps

25. To Take Home • Social equity can (and should) be quantified and integrated into planning for SB 375 • Challenge of integrating community knowledge and planners’ culture of science • Informed community participation and capacity-building adds value to process • Relevant indicators • Hidden factors documented • Historical context

26. Contact • Jonathan London, Ph.D. Director: UC Davis Center for Regional Change • One Shields Avenue 2009 Wickson Davis CA 95616 • crcinfo@ucdavis.edu530-752-3007 • http://regionalchange.ucdavis.edu/ • http://mappingregionalchange.ucdavis.edu