Outdoor activities can increase opportunities for physical activity, reduce stress, and strengthen relationships with our friends, family, and community. OPHI is working with Willamette Partnership, Portland State’s Institute for Sustainable Solutions, Oregon Healthiest State and...
TheHEAL Cities Campaign is a partnership between the League of Oregon Cities and the Oregon Public Health Institute, made possible with generous support from Kaiser Permanente. The HEAL Cities Campaign is a resource to help civic...
This tool offers a comprehensive set of strategies and program plans to address gang violence in urban communities. This tool can be used for stakeholders at various levels including, community organizations, local residents and...
Minority contracting is a set of tools to be accessed by various stakeholders in order to benefit local business and development in low income and minority neighborhoods. Designed to address disparities felt by minorities...
Resident-Owned Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) include Community Development Credit Unions (CDCUs) and Community and Individual Investment Corporations (CIICs) and aid in community development by generating and maintaining wealth within the community. Community residents,...
The IZ tool demonstrates how communities can use zoning to promote mixed-income communities. It allows for communities to counter the declining public sector investment in affordable housing, and thus enable low-income and moderate-income families...
The Community Mapping tool allows communities of all sizes, cultural backgrounds, and socioeconomic status to promote equitable development. Community maps can be hand drawn or computer generated, and provide the ability to share and...
The CRA is an online tool that low-income communities can use to secure loans for home construction, purchase, and improvement; for establishing neighborhood businesses; and for supporting community institutions. Some considerations for this tool...
This tool aims to protect renters by ensuring that landlords can only evict with proper cause. Just cause eviction controls are an important tool for promoting tenant stability – particularly in low vacancy and...
Housing code enforcement compels landlords to improve building conditions, and can be triggered to transfer building ownership from an exploitative owner to a responsible nonprofit developer, tenant association, or community group – both improving...
