Some innovative public health departments have begun collaborating with redevelopment agencies to incorporate health-promoting strategies into the process of rebuilding low-income or “blighted” neighborhoods. This guide explores the potential for collaboration between these agencies and shows how both can overcome their own institutional challenges to create a strong partnership to improve community health.

PHLP, in collaboration with the Bay Area Health Inequities Initiative and the National Policy & Legal Analysis Network to Prevent Childhood Obesity (NPLAN), developed “New Partnerships for Healthier Neighborhoods,” a report that emerged from a 2009 roundtable of redevelopment and public health departments in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Be sure to view our other redevelopment resources.