Participating Sites

In October 2010, Living Cities announced the five sites chosen for The Integration Initiative. The sites which will be participating from 2011 to 2013 are: Baltimore, MD; Cleveland, OH; Detroit, MI; Newark, NJ and the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, MN. In aggregate, the sites receive an investment of $85 million in grants, flexible debt, and commercial debt by Living Cities and its members. They also participate in an array of formal and informal partnership and knowledge exchange opportunities including one-on-one meetings, site visits, online collaboration tools, and cross-site convenings known as “Learning Communities.”

Baltimore Integration Partnership

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.
Greater University Circle Community Wealth Building Initiative

Cleveland's Greater University Circle Community Wealth Building 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.
- Cleveland One Page Overview
- Cleveland Local Press Release
The Woodward Corridor Initiative

The Woodward Corridor Initiative 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.
Strong Healthy Communities Initiative

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. Newark's Strong Healthy Communities Initiative (SHCI) will address these unequal conditions by using a "social determinants of health" framework to improve the economic and social well-being of targeted low-income communities through systems transformation as well as coordinated investments in housing, education, healthcare and healthy food options.
Corridors of Opportunity

Living Cities support will advance the Corridors of Opportunity, a 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.