Complete Streets video series
Complete Streets look different in every community. Our Championing Complete Streets video series highlights Complete Streets efforts in Fort Wayne, IN, Versailles, KY, San Diego, CA, Missoula, MT, and Oklahoma City, OK.
Watch the videos >>Smart Growth America empowers communities through technical assistance, advocacy and thought leadership to create livable places, healthy people, and shared prosperity. We work with elected officials at all levels, real estate developers, chambers of commerce, transportation and urban planning professionals, and residents to improve everyday life for people across the country through better development. Read more about our work >>
SGA testifies before Vermont State Legislature on analysis of new infrastructure financing program
Through a partnership with AARP Vermont and as part of AARP’s Livable Communities Technical Assistance Program, SGA evaluated the proposed Community Housing Infrastructure (CHIP) program for its potential impact on housing development. The CHIP program offers a new approach to fund infrastructure for housing at the project scale —a common and challenging funding gap to … Continued
How Trump’s budget request would have the federal government abandon and isolate people and communities
Last Friday, May 2nd, President Trump released his “skinny budget,” a document that sets out his vision for the federal government by providing a rough outline of the more detailed budget request he will release later this year. While the president has attacked core federal programs before, this limited budget request proposed a deep and … Continued