Get your Equity Summit tickets
The Equity Summit: Building Forward returns to the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library in Washington, DC, on March 26 and 27, 2025. Featuring Jerusalem Demsas from The Atlantic as our Keynote.
Grab your tickets now!
Act now >>Smart Growth America empowers communities through technical assistance, advocacy and thought leadership to create livable places, healthy people, and shared prosperity. We work with elected officials at all levels, real estate developers, chambers of commerce, transportation and urban planning professionals, and residents to improve everyday life for people across the country through better development. Read more about our work >>
Continuing the momentum: Driving local-level housing reform in Massachusetts communities
Smart Growth America is proud to continue supporting local advocacy efforts for affordable housing and zoning reform with the launch of the 2025 Massachusetts Technical Assistance cohort. Generously funded by The Barr Foundation, this year’s program builds on the successes of SGA’s previous iteration of the MA TA program in 2022-2023 and the Opportunity Zones … Continued
Federal actions threaten roadway safety efforts: What’s at stake
This post was written by Heidi Simon and Eric Cova. The Complete Streets movement was started more than twenty years ago to build shared energy and strategy for making our streets safer. As the convener of the National Complete Streets Coalition, we have worked alongside communities large and small to implement real changes that make … Continued