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Housing, Jobs, Education, and Poverty: Making the Connection with Bicycling - Jeff Sovich

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More and more communities across the US are embracing the value that bicyclingbrings to their transportation systems and local economies. Even so, wide and growing gaps remain in educational attainment, employment opportunities, affordable housing options, and socio-economic mobility.But a simple invention that has been in common use for 130 years could be the key to shrinking these gaps and reversing these negative trends, to create more prosperous and equitable communities. The bicycle is uniquely positioned at the very busy intersection where transportation, housing, jobs, education, poverty, equity, health, safety, and many other crucial issues converge.Until very recently, the members of our communities who stand to gain the most from the wide ranging benefits of bicycling have been those least engaged by the bicycling advocacy movement. That situation is changing rapidly for the better, but so far the dialogue has focused mainly on promoting proportionate minority representation in bike advocacy efforts and on increasing the share of minority people who ride bicycles, rather than on the transformative power of bicycling to bring about positive social change.This session will explore ways that bicycling can be a tool for improving housing affordability, physical mobility, employment opportunities, and academic achievement, especially among minority and low-income populations.
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Housing, Jobs, Education, and Prosperity – Making the Connection with Bicycling 2015 NC Bike Summit Jeff Sovich, AICP
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Housing, Jobs, Education, and Prosperity – Making the Connection with Bicycling

2015 NC Bike SummitJeff Sovich, AICP

TRANSPORTATION

JOBS

HEALTH

SAFETY

EQUITY

EDUCATIONHOUSING

HOUSING

Housing“Poor people walk and bike the

most, so if you're an advocate for biking and walking, you are an

advocate for low-income housing. You’re already natural allies.”

Harriet Tregoning, Director of the Office of Economic Resilience at the U.S. Department of Housing

and Urban Development

Housing

Housing

Housing

Housing

JOBS

Jobs

Jobs

Jobs

EDUCATION

Education

Education

Education

Education

Education

PROSPERITY

Prosperity

Physical HumanCapital Capital

Natural SocialCapital Capital

But What Is Prosperity?

Access &Mobility

Quality Communities

& Housing

Natural, HealthyEnvironment

CivicEngagement

Arts &Culture

Safety &Security

Physical& Mental

Health

Education

EconomicOpportunity

PROSPERITY

Maslow’sHierarchy ofNeeds

But What Is Prosperity?

But What Is Prosperity?

So What About Equity?

● CDBG participation in BikeShare systems

● Bikeability as a housing subsidy criteria

● Bicycles financed into federal home loans

● Establish Community Trans. Dev. Orgs.

● Housing & bicycle advocates join forces

New Directions


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