Rebuilding Healthier Neighborhoods: How Four Cities Brought Health into Redevelopment Projects
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Equipped with data, connections, and boots on the ground, public health professionals are in a prime position to help plan neighborhood redevelopment efforts and ensure their success. New Opportunities for Public Health: Working with Redevelopment highlights ways for public health staff to partner with redevelopment agencies to build healthier communitis, exploring strategies to overcome some of the challenges they may face.
Revitalizing neighborhoods through the formal process of redevelopment can bring an array of health benefits for residents. But health considerations are not usually a priority for redevelopment agencies, where success is measured in terms of increased tax revenue.
With strong partnerships between public health and redevelopment agencies – and critical participation from neighborhood residents – redevelopment plans can support both economic and public health goals.
PHLP created this series of podcasts, which will run weekly through February 23, to show how four different communities have pursued this innovative partnership. Each podcast brings to life a story of how the redevelopment process helped advance public health, improving local air quality and making parks and healthy food more accessible. Listen to this week's podcast, or subscribe to the entire series using this feed link. The series will comprise six podcasts in total, running weekly through February 10, 2010.
