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Funding Opportunity
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Opportunities to Address Past Inequity to Build Healthier, More Sustainable Communities
Organization Name
California Air Resources Board
Funding Opportunity Brief *
Announcing a request for proposals for a project that will examine the policies that have contributed to the inequitable distribution of resources to California’s priority communities and identify strategies to address these inequities.
Program Name
California Air Resource Board Research Program
Equity Categories
Disadvantaged Community
Opportunity Zone
Description

This is a competitive contract solicitation to support the California Air Resources Board (CARB or Board) research priorities for fiscal year 2021-2022. CARB staff will hold a Pre-Application Workshop on April 8, 2021 for this and related projects. CARB is encouraging proposers to form multidisciplinary teams to fulfill contract requirements. Principle Investigators (PIs) must be affiliated with University of California and California State Universities, however, CARB encourages PIs to recruit non-academic research partners and diversify research efforts and talent. 

Historically, racial discriminatory practices placed public services and funding sources out of reach for many residents based on race or ethnicity. Although many of these practices have been outlawed in the past several decades, current policies are still not providing sufficient investments to adequately develop clean, healthy, and resilient communities, or reverse the impacts of historical and sustained racial, economic, and pollution burdens experienced in some of California’s historically disinvested priority communities. This has resulted in priority communities having inadequate access to transportation infrastructure, mobility options, economic upward mobility, and housing, among other social determinants of health. As California works to identify new areas for affordable, transportation-efficient housing developments as potential solutions to address the housing crisis, it will be equally important to identify additional investments for existing priority communities to avoid exacerbating inequities. The objective of this project is to examine the policies, along with systemic precedents, that have contributed to the inequitable distribution of resources and resulting disparities in California’s priority communities. In addition, the project will identify strategies to address these inequities, in transportation and land use policies, strategies, and funding practices. The project may also identify other needed systemic changes. This project will recommend existing and new place-based investments along with policies intended to yield economic, environmental, and social returns to support healthy, sustainable community development. Researchers will use spatial and policy analyses to characterize the role of historical land use, housing, and transportation-related funding programs in creating and exacerbating resource and access inequities. This project will also leverage the results of a companion project aimed at identifying areas across the state that are transportation-efficient, healthy, and where residents have access to economic and educational opportunities—high-opportunity places to live. The results of this project will help propose strategies and policies that state, regional, and local governments can use to identify and address inequitable planning and funding policies. Results will also help to establish planning-related policies along with place-based investments that can begin to reduce inequities in resources and opportunities experienced by priority communities, and help the state achieve its climate goals.

Available Funding
$300,000.00
Maximum Award Amount
$300,000.00
Tags
Transportation

Health
Development
Environmental Justice
Equity
Government
Buildings