Population health and wellbeing depends on equitable community conditions such as a healthy local economy. Where all residents, especially those historically denied opportunities for wealth creation, can participate fully. Growing racial, geographic, and class inequalities within the U.S. economy beg the question: are common #economicdevelopment policies/practices working? Robert Wood Johnson Foundation partnered with Lincoln Institute of Land Policy to examine commonly held beliefs and explore alternatives that could improve quality of life and social conditions at the local level. #healthequity #communitydevelopment #healthycommunities #racialequity #socialdeterminantsofhealth
A new Lincoln Institute research project supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is introducing a three-part framework for thinking about economic development—one that targets resident health, equity, and wellbeing as the explicit goals of such investments, rather than just growth. Learn more in Jon Gorey’s latest Land Lines piece, featuring perspectives from project lead Haegi Kwon and Director, Equity and Opportunity, Jessie Grogan; Invest Appalachia’s Andrew Crosson; and Russell: A Place of Promise’s Cassandra Webb and Theresa Zawacki. https://lnkd.in/eBP5aF2Z
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6moI've read this piece twice now and I keep thinking that the refocus that it calls for is not a call to action to 'say no to growth' but instead to focus growth on existing assets to ensure community stability. It's the difference between new growth and an inward reckoning with how the people and places we currently have could do better with the proper support. Is that a fair read? It's much more nuanced than the German Greens No Growth strategy, right?