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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Keywords

Policy Area:
- Economic Development :
  - Redevelopment / TIF

Podcasts: Rebuilding Healthier Neighborhoods

Watch our series of four podcast stories that show how redevelopment can help make communities healthier. This series, available through HealthyPlanning.org or iTunes, brings to life how the redevelopment process helped advance public health, improving local air quality and making parks and healthy food more accessible.

New Toolkit: Increasing Physical Activity Through Joint Use Agreements

PHLP’s joint use toolkit helps communities and school districts work together to develop joint use agreements increasing access to recreational facilities on school grounds.

New Report: Partners for Public Health

Partners for Public Health provides a broad overview of the many public agencies that make policy decisions affecting aspects of the built environment, and outlines the structure and decision-making process for each agency (at the local, regional, state, and federal level), pointing public health professionals toward opportunities for engagement.