Showcasing Impact: The Value of Embedding Community-Based Planners in Underserved Communities | APA Los Angeles
For decades, communities of color and low-income communities across Los Angeles County have failed to receive adequate development, operations, and maintenance services to actualize an equitable built environment. While inadequate services to these communities are not exclusive to any one period, these outcomes are most prominently understood through the impact of redlining , a discriminatory practice of denying loans or services within a specific geographic area due to the race or ethnicity...