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Alliances
Great Communities Collaborative
City
San Francisco
Year Founded
2013
a. GCC Partners include regional, national and local non-governmental organizations and financial foundations working with community groups, businesses, and governmental leaders and agents b. GCC Funders Network is comprised of community, local, and national foundations c. GCC also works with at least five partner TOD collaboratives across the country
Type of Collaborators
Equitable and Sustainable Communities Climate Resilience Anti-Displacement Public Land for Public Good
Issue Area
According to one estimate, the unprecedented growth in the San Francisco Bay Area has created some 450,000 new jobs—but only 54,000 units of housing—between 2010 and 2014.4 As housing costs skyrocket, low-income residents of color are being pushed out of the region’s urban core in dramatic numbers. Recognizing a looming crisis, voters approved some $12.5 billion in bonds for transportation, housing, and infrastructure. As this is occurring, new public policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and advance racial equity are also being implemented.
Political Opportunity
Geographic Scope
Low income communities of color across the Bay area including San Francisco, Oakland and Berkeley
Create and maintain working groups to better organize and support individual and collective actions around the TOD on a local and regional scale including the 1. TOD Implementation Table 2. The Public Land Working Group 3. Bay Area for All (BA4A) 4. Climate Equity Working Group Local Strategy: 1. Supports and funds local advocacy and base-building organizations 2. Builds strategic partnerships with private and public-sector allies to advance to strengthen community engagement in policies, practices and investments 3. Provide technical assistance Regional Strategy: 1. Bay Area 4 All which is a partnership of GCC, 6 Wins for Social Equity Network, and Bay Area Regional Health Inequalities Initiative funded by SPARCC 2. Displacement Symposium Series which is a four-part workshop series on Investing without Displacement 3. Transit Agency Partnerships which includes convening a TOD Implementation Working Group to gather and align different tools and resources to develop innovative cross-sector strategies for eTOD 4. CASA is the Committee to House the Bay Area that works to amplify equitable solutions for affordable housing 5. Regional Housing Enterprise through endorsing and promoting the concept Financing Strategy: Catalyze financial solutions for projects that build economically, racially diverse and mixed-use transit centered communities. GCC is investing in research and technical assistance to disseminate tools, data, and approaches that advocates or cities can use to make policy change, and in capturing stories of residents organizing in the tenant movement in order to shift the narrative around race and who belongs.” a. Supporting and funding local and regional advocacy for policies b. Identifying and developing funding and financing mechanisms to improve the financing secor for equitable and sustaining communities c. Working with community and base building groups that center racial equity in their decision making and seeks to transform how the community development field approaches the acquisition of multi- family housing near transit and the rehab process d. In research and communications, GCC works to identify and share best practices, translate and and distill policies, foster discourse, and disseminate a shared, unified voice that advances a narrative of equity and inclusion in TOD in addition to a less carbon-intensive development.
Organizational Function
Common Agenda
Targeted Beneficiaries
Low income communities of color
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