Initiatives

Current Campaigns and Projects

Regional Transportation Plan Campaign

Urban Habitat announces its two-year advocacy campaign around the Metropolitan Planning Commission’s 25 year transit spending and investment plan known as the Regional Transportation Plan (RTP). UH is advocating at both the regional level (in partnership with TALC) and county levels for an RTP process and outcome that ensures that low income communities and communities of color receive an equitable share of transit funding and investments.

On May 16th UH staff and allies met with key MTC staff to advocate for the inclusion of equity criteria throughout the current RTP. The Transportation Justice Working (TJWG) group is taking a leading role in this campaign through the participation of its members in regional/county advocacy efforts as well as development of an RTP platform that emphasizes equity and environmental justice principles. For the first time transportation justice advocates, led by the TJWG, are targeting county-level transportation (currently focusing on Alameda and San Francisco) decision-making in an effort to have those transportation projects & priorities reflect the needs of transit dependent populations. Throughout the summer UH will continue to monitor the selection process for transit projects and attend Congestion Management Agency Board meetings to advocate for the needs of transit dependent populations.  As part of the Regional Transportation Plan Campaign, members of the Transportation Justice Working Group (TJWG) distributed their alternative platform at the annual regional meeting of the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) on October 26th. Read more... 

Over the next five years the Bay Area will have a once in a generation opportunity to plan 100 new station areas along rapid transit stations and transit corridors. UHP will partner with the Greenbelt, NPH and TALC to ensure that half of all new homes are in walkable communities located near transit and at all affordable prices to families of varying income levels.  The core partners will work with community groups to ensure that the plans preserve local assets and identify and fund needed services and amenities. read more...