Our Work

Finance Toolbox

Finance Toolbox

This document is intended to serve as a resource guide for potentially available financial and programmatic resources in support of affordable...

TOD Transit Rider Survey

TOD Transit Rider Survey

Focused primarily on automobile dependent populations using stations located in underinvested neighborhoods primed for ?catalytic? TOD...

TOD Implementation Strategy Assistance

TOD Implementation Strategy Assistance

Presents the opportunities for additional Transit Oriented Development (TOD) in an around the existing network of 37 MARTA heavy rail stations in the...

Equitable TOD Feasibility Analysis Report

Equitable TOD Feasibility Analysis Report

An Equitable TOD strategy should align with demand by income quintiles existing in a given market...

Equitable TOD Typology for the Atlanta Region

Equitable TOD Typology for the Atlanta Region

The regional TOD Typology evaluates TOD opportunities through a social equity lens to better understand the vulnerability of communities around the...

Our Partner's Work

ULI mini Technical Assistance Panels

ULI mini Technical Assistance Panels

During a nine month ULI Leadership Atlanta program participants provide leadership on a critical Atlanta regional issue through a mini Technical...

ULI Technical Assistance Panels

ULI Technical Assistance Panels

Technical Assistance Panels (TAPs) provide expert, multidisciplinary advice for complex land use and real estate issues in the Atlanta...

Westside Wake-Up Report

Westside Wake-Up Report

In June 2013 Enterprise Community Parners awarded Tapestry Development Group a grant to explore possibilities for implementing equitable...

ARC – Regional Travel Survey

ARC – Regional Travel Survey

The Atlanta Regional Commission (ARC) contracted with the team of PTV NuStats, GeoStats and PB Americas, Inc to conduct a comprehensive study of the...

TMA Area Profiles

TMA Area Profiles

Comprising of the smallest area by square foot, Atlantic Station is home to 2,500 jobs. However, Atlantic Station pulls employees mainly from the...

Promoting Opportunity Through ETOD

Promoting Opportunity Through ETOD

Investments in transportation infrastructure can catalyze regional growth and improve mobility. Given limited public funds, public officials and...

Promoting Opportunity through ETOD – Barriers

Promoting Opportunity through ETOD – Barriers

Development patterns directly relate to a community?s strength. Individual families, the local economy, municipal governments and the environment all...

Promise to Prosperity

Promise to Prosperity

If passed, the Transportation Investment Act (TIA) one penny sales tax will be the largest transportation investment in metropolitan Atlanta in...

Preserving Affordable Housing Near Transit

Preserving Affordable Housing Near Transit

Regions across the United States are expanding public transportation systems to allow more residential choices, improve access to employment centers,...

MAEA

MAEA

Two and a half years ago, our committee came together to develop the Metro Atlanta Equity Atlas (MAEA) ? an up-to-date, easily accessible data...

Filling the Finance Gap ETOD

Filling the Finance Gap ETOD

During the past two decades, transit-oriented development (TOD) has emerged as a powerful tool for creating liveable communities near good public...

COA TOD Strategy Document

COA TOD Strategy Document

Transit-oriented development is relatively dense development designed to maximize non-motorized access to transit and improve quality of life. TOD is...

Atlanta Workforce Board

The Atlanta Regional Workforce Board?s (ARWB) Career Resource Centers assist people seeking employment, training and education...

Regional Economic Competitiveness Strategy

This strategy is intended to serve as a roadmap for Metro Atlanta on issues affecting regional competitiveness, and reflects the economic development...

ARC existing Regional Transit Systems

ARC existing Regional Transit Systems

Access information about the Atlanta region?s transit providers and services...

Neighborhood Nexus

Neighborhood Nexus

Neighborhood Nexus provides accurate neighborhood-level data to provide decision-makers and residents throughout metro Atlanta with better...

Metro Atlanta Equity Atlas (MAEA)

Metro Atlanta Equity Atlas (MAEA)

MAEA offers easy-to-access data, maps and analysis of several topics to help make our communities safer, smarter, healthier and more...

Other Resources

Claiming Our Power, Shaping Our Destiny

Claiming Our Power, Shaping Our Destiny

A Message from Angela Glover Blackwell Distributed at Equity Summit 2018, April 11-13, 2018,...

All Transit Database

All Transit Database

AllTransit is the largest source of transit connectivity, access, and frequency data in...

Practice Inclusionary Upzoning

Practice Inclusionary Upzoning

As communities relax height, density, and other zoning restrictions to meet rising demand for urban living, a growing number of locali-ties are...

Inclusionary Housing

Inclusionary Housing

After decades of disinvestment, American cities are rebounding, but new development is driving up housing costs and displacing lower-income...

Delivering on the Promise of Inclusionary Housing

Delivering on the Promise of Inclusionary Housing

Inclusionary housing is a tool used by local jurisdictions throughout the country to increase the amount of affordable or workforce housing....

HOW Transit Map

HOW Transit Map

Why Support this Investment in Affordable Housing Near Transit? This bill provides a local option, to use local funds to fill a local need. The King...

H+T Fact Sheets

H+T Fact Sheets

Traditional measures of housing affordability ignore transportation costs. Typically a household?s second-largest expenditure, transportation costs...

Teaming Up Atlanta

Teaming Up Atlanta

During 2012, the Teaming Up Atlanta initiative brought together community development financial institutions (CDFIs) serving the Atlanta area. The...

How much is too much? You do the math.

How much is too much? You do the math.

It should be possible for working parents to afford housing and still have enough money for the basics like groceries, gas, and childcare....

Community Land Trust Policy Report

Community Land Trust Policy Report

The policy focus report series is published by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy to address timely public policy issues relating to land use, land...

The Scenic Route

The Scenic Route

More than ever, transportation agencies need the engagement and support of local communities. Whether projects as basic as the redesign of an...

Denver Regional Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) Fund

Denver Regional Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) Fund

The TOD Fund is used to create and preserve affordable homes along current and future transit corridors in...

Atlanta Beltline Mixed Income Housing Strategy

Atlanta Beltline Mixed Income Housing Strategy

A series of recommendations to implement Mixed Income Transit Oriented Development around the Atlanta...

Bay Area Transit-Oriented Affordable Housing Fund

Bay Area Transit-Oriented Affordable Housing Fund

The Bay Area Transit Oriented Affordable Housing Fund (TOAH Fund or Fund) is a $50 million public-private financing resource that provides up-front...

Community Benefits Agreements

Site-specific community benefits agreements (CBAs) ensure that particular projects create opportunities for local workers and...

Location Affordability Portal

Location Affordability Portal

The Location Affordability Portal provides estimates of household housing and transportation costs at the neighborhood level to help consumers,...