Welcome to the third issue of the Race Equity Project’s 2011 e-newsletter: Race, Poverty and Transportation, Part 2.

The first piece, which traverses three centuries, details the history around transportation, race, and the law, and places modern day struggles related to transportation access and equity into their proper context.   The second article highlights the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Sustainable Communities Initiative and how community advocates can maximize its potential to create opportunity for lower-income people of color living in transit-isolated, low-opportunity areas.  The final piece is an inspirational account of a transportation and jobs project in the Sacramento, California region that, though small in scale, packs a big punch by providing a viable job-generating transportation-to-work model for otherwise isolated homeless, inner city and rural residents across the country.

Lessons from the History of Transportation Justice - By Richard Marcantonio and Marc Brenman

A Guide to Incorporating Equity into Sustainable Communities Regional Planning - By Kalima Rose and Mona Tawatao

“Wheels to Work”:  A Unique Transportation/Employment Program Drives to End Homelessness in Sacramento – By Sandra Hamameh

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