Public Advocates and diverse national, statewide, and local organizations and scholars including The City Project that work on transportation justice have submitted public comments to the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) on the proposed new Circulars on Title VI and Environmental Justice. Our organizations have a unique vantage point on the impacts of unjust transportation plans, [...]

Fray Antonio de Montesinos landed with the first band of Dominican friars from Spain in Hispaniola. He was the first, in 1511, to denounce publicly in America the enslavement and oppression of the Indians as sinful and disgraceful, and to call for reform. That sermon launched a Spanish debate about protecting the indigenous people, contributed to [...]

“All told, that places 100 million people — one in three Americans — either in poverty or in the fretful zone just above it. After a lost decade of flat wages and the worst downturn since the Great Depression, the findings can be thought of as putting numbers to the bleak national mood — quantifying [...]

See The City Project’s policy report and maps on Healthy Parks, Schools and Communities: Green Access and Equity for Orange County in English. Síga este enlace para ver el reporte y mapas del City Project de Parques, Escuelas y Comunidades Saludables: Acceso Verde y Equidad en el Condado de Orange en Español. Click here to [...]

See The City Project’s policy report and maps on Healthy Parks, Schools and Communities: Green Access and Equity for Orange County in English. Síga este enlace para ver el reporte y mapas del City Project de Parques, Escuelas y Comunidades Saludables: Acceso Verde y Equidad en el Condado de Orange en Español. Click here to [...]

Tom Hayden, a member of the board of The City Project, published the following article on the Occupy Movement and a commentary by Robert Garcia, The City Project’s Founding Director and Counsel, on November 20, 2011.  Click here to read Tom’s article. Click here for demographic analyses of the 1 percent from the New York [...]

Tom Hayden, a member of the board of The City Project, published the following article on the Occupy Movement and a commentary by Robert Garcia, The City Project’s Founding Director and Counsel, on November 20, 2011.  Click here to read Robert’s commentary. Click here for demographic analyses of the 1 percent from the New York [...]

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When public health campaigns to buckle up or quit smoking were unsuccessful, legal strategies–such as fines for not wearing a seatbelt and restrictions on where smoking could occur–were used to reduce the number of health issues, injuries, and deaths caused by these behaviors. Childhood obesity is another health concern that remains a substantial problem in [...]