Metropolitan Area Planning Council

Conservation Matters Articles
Building Healthy Communities One Neighborhood at a Time
by Laurie O'Reilly

For a neighborhood to truly thrive, it needs healthy people, a healthy environment, and a healthy economy with opportunities for all. Improving neighborhood environments can boost health, but traditional financing sources simply aren’t capable of addressing those needs at a project level. Recognizing the complex challenges of building healthy and sustainable communities, three years ago,…