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Watch our video chronicling our annual advocacy day in Sacramento where residents from across the state share a powerful message with legislators about why health, safety, and equity policy matters to their community.
In November, voters in four cities will decide whether to tax soda and sugary drinks: San Francisco, Oakland, Albany (CA) and Boulder, Colorado. These votes will come on the heels of Philadelphia’s decision this June to tax sugar-sweetened drinks, and Berkeley’s 2014 vote for the same. Momentum is building, just as research is emerging that these taxes can improve public health and equity.
On Tuesday, by a 52-46 margin - eight votes short of the 60 needed to pass the bill – the U.S. Senate rejected legislation that would provide funding for U.S. Zika virus response efforts.
On October 6, 2015, the Healthy, Equitable, Active Land Use (HEALU) Network convened practitioners, policymakers, funders and community advocates to discuss Healthy Development Without Displacement. The crowd consisted of nearly 100 participants engaged in anti-displacement work as well as practitioners seeking to learn more from local and national experts about how the tools and concepts to prevent and/or mitigate displacement apply in their own work. The recent groundswell of Healthy Communities initiatives highlighted an important tension that needed to be addressed: changes to improve community environments, such as walking trails, bike paths, healthy food retail, and parks and open space, can be perceived negatively by residents as precursors to gentrification, and, if no measures are taken to protect current residents, can ultimately lead to displacement of residents who would stand to benefit the most from these very community improvements.
This two-minute video, created with our Making Connections partners in Los Angeles, provides an overview of the initiative and a glimpse at our collaborators across the U.S.
The Healthy, Equitable, Active Land Use (HEALU) Network convened practitioners, policymakers, and community advocates for a summit on Healthy Land Use for All: Elevating Innovation in Los Angeles and Beyond. Over 80 participants engaged in a lively discussion on innovative efforts to promote health equity through land use in Los Angeles and learned from Seattle/King County’s nationally-recognized work to promote equity in all policies. The purpose of the HEALU Network Innovation Summits is to lift up promising, innovative strategies across the country on issues that are integrating health into planning and land use.