The Integration Initiative
The Integration Initiative supports cities that are harnessing existing momentum and leadership for change, overhauling long obsolete systems and fundamentally reshaping communities and policies to meet the needs of low-income residents.
(L to R): Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson, Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Detroit Mayor Dave Bing, Living Cities President & CEO Ben Hecht, Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak, St. Paul Mayor Christopher Coleman, and Newark Mayor Cory Booker
PublicationBaltimore Overview
The Baltimore Integration Partnership proposes to create municipal and regional mechanisms to ensure that low-income communities benefit from large-scale economic development projects and the economic opportunities generated by anchor institutions.
PublicationCleveland Overview
The Cleveland initiative seeks to fully harness the power of nationally renowned anchor institutions to drive a regional economic inclusion strategy that develops jobs and businesses in the region for the benefit of low- income people.
PublicationDetroit Overview
This effort will fight the out-migration of Detroit’s population to the suburbs and seek to “redensify” the urban core by improving safety, schools, employment, and small business opportunities.
PublicationNewark Overview
In Newark and other urban communities, low-income residents cannot afford to live in a healthful environment, and the costs of unhealthy living further destabilize families and entrench people in poverty.
PublicationTwin Cities Overview
Living Cities support will advance the development of a regional, cross-sector framework for equitable Transit- Oriented Development that ensures that low-income residents, businesses and neighborhoods along the existing Hiawatha line and planned Southwest and Central lines benefit from transit-related investments.