Applying a Health Lens to Business Practices, Policies, and Investments Workshop Summary (2016) / Chapter Skim
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5 Revitalizing Communities
5 Revitalizing Communities
Pages 47-60
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Community leaders have recognized the same connections between the social determinants of health and the overall well-being of their constituents, mostly low income and mostly people of color, he said. They are getting involved in issue-based neighborhood organizing, and taking action on policies and practices.
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In this session, speakers provided examples of the community building and economic revitalization that are under way in two major cities, what these initiatives mean for health equity, and in particular, the role of business in this process. Anne Griffith, senior program director at Enterprise Community Partners, Inc., discussed HOPE SF, a revitalization project in San Francisco, California.
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In each city, there is a need to rebuild neighborhoods with health equity in the forefront of the plans, and create an inclusive strategy for both jobs and business development, Rubin said. SAN FRANCISCO: HOPE SF Enterprise Community Partners is a national, nonprofit organization that offers a range of financial products and programs to improve and increase the supply of affordable housing and to revitalize communities.
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In the Bay View and Hunters Point areas there are four public housing developments: Hunters View, Sunnydale, Alice Griffith, and Potrero Terrace and Annex. These are old, dilapidated, barracksstyle public housing, originally designed and built as shipyard housing, Griffith said.
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Traumatic events, especially events that happened in childhood, can have continuing neurobiological effects on people. Traumatic events also impact health outcomes and behavioral issues.
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This has allowed the funding of human capital programs that foster leadership at each of the housing sites, including the Peer Health Leadership Program, the Onsite Project-Based Employment Program, and the Educational Engagement and School Attendance Program. Philanthropic resources also allow HOPE SF to fund research, strategy development, and evaluation to identify best practices, and to implement them in a way that engages the residents.
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The city has lost 60 percent of its peak population of 1.85 million, and is now home to about 700,000 residents. Targets for the stabilization and improvement phases are to establish a stabilized population; double the number of jobs available in the city; create an integrated regional transportation system; become a globally recognized leader in adaptive land reuse; and be enhanced and sustained by a broad-based and ongoing civic stewardship network.
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This land is distributed across the city, and concentrated in a few key places. This is seen as a tremendous liability, and Detroit Future City is working to identify ways in which this land can become an asset for the city, such as green infrastructure for air quality and recreation, blue infrastructure for storm water management, and urban agriculture.
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Death rates from heart disease are 50 percent higher than the national average, and childhood asthma cases are three times the national average. Detroit Future City hopes to impact these areas with more strategic decision making, and innovative investment that is tied to business opportunities and employment growth in the city.
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Detroit Future City is also working with the U.S. Department of Energy on renewable energy production in the city (e.g., biomass energy production from switchgrass anaerobic digestion, solar photovoltaic energy production with pumped-storage hydro)
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DISCUSSION Rubin observed that San Francisco and Detroit are both working to redefine the public good, and the identity and vision of the city as a whole, and each is going about it in a different way. He noted that increasing wealth and growth overall do not solve the problem of pockets of isolation and poverty, and a growing city runs the risk of losing sight of its public responsibility.
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Griffith responded that under the nonprofit parent organization of Enterprise Community Partners, there is an asset management arm and two financial arms (a nonprofit Community Development Financial Institution that makes loans and an investment subsidiary that brings in capital through activities such as low-income housing tax credits and new market tax credits)
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Whether Detroit Future City is working with philanthropic partners or community-based partners, public health is the undergirding element, he said. Rubin added that the University of Michigan School of Public Health has the Detroit Urban Research Center, which partners with community-based organizations to do participatory research on a range of health issues.
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Keeping the Momentum Catherine Baase of The Dow Chemical Company noted the challenges of convening people effectively to address such overwhelming and daunting issues. How do initiatives generate the will among collaborators and partners, and how do staff stay motivated and committed in the face of such despair?
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