Fact Sheet: Getting Involved in Redevelopment
Strategies for Public Health Advocates
Fact Sheet
Public health advocates and community residents can help improve access to healthy foods and physical activity by working with redevelopment agencies to revitalize “blighted” neighborhoods. This fact sheet shows how redevelopment can help build healthier communities, and how advocates and residents can partner with redevelopment agencies throughout the process.
Also, be sure to download our other redevelopment products:
- How to Use Redevelopment to Create Healthier Communities provides a basic overview of how redevelopment works.
- Economic Development and Redevelopment: A Toolkit on Land Use and Health offers a fundamental overview of the economic development and redevelopment tools available, their use, and how to effectively participate in decisions about their use.
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- Toolkit: Economic Development and Redevelopment
- Toolkit: Changes in the WIC Food Packages
- Involving Public Health in Climate Change Policy
- Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Taxes: Model Legislation
- Fact Sheet: Creating a Permit Program for Produce Cart Vendors
- Partners for Public Health
- Fact Sheet: How to Use Economic Development Resources to Improve Access to Healthy Food
- Healthy Planning Guide
- Policy Area:
- Redevelopment
In the last few years, a new understanding of the built environment’s impact on health has brought the public health community and planners together to develop a variety of innovative land use policies that promote health.