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Bay Area 4 All (BA4A), is GCC’s partnership with the 6 Wins for Social Equity Network (6 Wins) and Bay Area Regional Health Inequities Initiative (BARHII), as part of the [...]

By the Housing Leadership Council of San Mateo When BART expanded their south-bound line to Millbrae in 2000, they estimated that 30,000 riders a day would use their services. Eighteen years [...]

David Zisser from Public Advocates article ” Say It Loud: Renter’s Rights Are Civil Rights!” – featured in Shelterforce. David Zisser is a senior staff attorney at Public [...]

On December 7th, Bay Area 4 All, hosted the Keep Oakland Home convening which brought together affordable housing developers, base building tenant organizing groups and residents for an afternoon [...]

  CASA Public Lands Recommendations The Great Communities Collaborative Public Lands Working Group has met since 2016 to shape public land policies and practices in the Bay Area. The Group [...]

“Gentrification Explained” is a short video that unpacks what gentrification really means, getting beyond the buzzword.  It was produced through the collaboration of the San Francisco Federal [...]

“Pushed Out” is a short explainer video that helps paint a clearer picture of displacement and its long-term impact. It was produced through the collaboration of the San Francisco [...]

By: Elizabeth Wampler, GCC Initiative Officer Growing up in Houston, I quickly got used to watching the waters rise. I remember Sims Bayou, less than 1000 feet from my house, flooding over its [...]

Authors: Dessi Mia Carbajal and Anthony Federico – East Bay Housing Organization (EBHO) We know San Francisco, Oakland, and the Peninsula are ground zero for the housing and displacement [...]

It all started in Walnut Creek cafes, living rooms and churches in 2012. That’s the year East Bay Housing Organizations (EBHO), Greenbelt Alliance, and several congregations and nonprofits came [...]

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Written by Michele Beasley, Regional Director, Greenbelt Alliance Greenbelt Alliance has been engaged in the Diridon Station Area planning effort for several years, having spent considerable time [...]

Planning Process Started: 2011 Plan and EIR Scheduled for Adoption: Late Spring/Early Summer 2014 Campaign Team: TransForm, Asian Pacific Environmental Network, Asian Health Services, East Bay [...]

Implementation Process Started: February 2013 Implementation Work to End: February 2016 Campaign Team: TransForm, EBHO, EBALDC Location on Transit Line: The International Boulevard [...]

Planning process started: 2009 Plan and EIR scheduled adopted: June 2014 Campaign team: Greenbelt Alliance, Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition, Working Partnerships USA Location on Transit Line: [...]

Planning process started: 2008 Plan and EIR adopted: July 2014 Campaign team: Greenbelt Alliance, East Bay Housing Organizations Location on Transit Line: 19th Street BART Station and AC Transit [...]

Planning Process Started: 2012 Plan and EIR Scheduled for Adoption: Winter 2014 Campaign Team: TransForm and San Mateo County Union Community Alliance Location on Transit Line: South San [...]

Planning process started: 2012 Plan and EIR scheduled for adoption: 2016 Campaign team: Greenbelt Alliance, East Bay Housing Organizations Location on Transit Line: Walnut Creek BART Station See [...]

Planning process started: 2013 Plan and EIR scheduled for adoption: June 2014 Campaign team: Greenbelt Alliance, East Bay Housing Organizations Location on Transit Line: Concord BART Station See [...]

Planning process started: Summer 2013 Plan and EIR scheduled for adoption: Q4 2014/ Q1 2015 Campaign team members: Greenbelt Alliance; Peninsula Interfaith Action (PIA); Silicon Valley Bicycle [...]

Planning process started: 2012 Plan and EIR scheduled for adoption: January 2014 Campaign team: Congregations Organizing for Renewal & Urban Habitat Location on Transit Line: Warm Springs [...]

Planning process started: 2010 Plan and EIR scheduled for adoption: spring/summer 2014 Campaign team: Silicon Valley Leadership Group, Friends of Caltrain, and Sunnyvale Cool Location on Transit [...]

Bringing expertise across multiple disciplines and deep knowledge of our communities, we are pleased to launch this website as a hub for real-time activity and sharing best practices in equitable [...]

Preserving Affordability and Diversity in Silicon Valley Following their successful advocacy for the East Palo Alto Ravenswood Business District Specific Plan, the Envision-Transform-Build [...]

Health is a core tenet of the Great Communities Collaborative: research has shown that households located near high-quality transit have higher rates of walking and biking, lower likelihood of [...]

Santa Clara—Santa Clara General Plan

San Mateo—Bay Meadows Specific Plan

San Leandro—Bayfair BART Area Plan

San Jose—North First Street Area Plan Implementation

San Francisco—Japantown Better Neighborhood Plan

Richmond/El Cerrito San Pablo Ave Corridor

Pleasanton—Hacienda TOD Plan

Mountain View—Housing Element of General Plan

Milpitas—Milpitas Transit Area Specific Plan

Hayward—South Hayward BART/Mission Boulevard

Grand Boulevard/El Camino Real—Grand Boulevard Multimodal Transportation Corridor Plan

Fremont—Housing Element of General Plan

Concord—Concord Naval Weapons Station

Cloverdale—Cloverdale SMART Station Area Plan

Berkeley—Downtown Area Plan

Alameda—Alameda Point

Santa Rosa—North Santa Rosa Station Area Specific Plan

Santa Rosa—Downtown Station Area Specific Plan

San Leandro—Downtown San Leandro Transit-Oriented Development Strategy

Pittsburg—Railroad Avenue Specific Plan

Pittsburg—Pittsburg/Bay Point BART Master Plan

East Palo Alto—East Palo Alto-Ravenswood Business District

Antioch—Hillcrest Station Area Specific Plan

Walnut Creek—Walnut Creek West Downtown Specific Plan Planning process started: 2012 Plan and EIR scheduled for adoption: End of 2014 Campaign team: Greenbelt Alliance, East Bay Housing [...]

Sunnyvale—Lawrence Station Area Plan Planning process started: 2010 Plan and EIR adopted: spring/summer 2014 Campaign team: Silicon Valley Leadership Group, Friends of Caltrain, and Sunnyvale [...]

South San Francisco—South San Francisco Downtown Specific Plan Planning Process Started: 2012 Plan and EIR Scheduled for Adoption: Late Spring/Early Summer 2014 Campaign Team: TransForm and San [...]

San Jose—San Jose Diridon Station Area Plan Planning process started: 2009 Plan and EIR adopted: June 2014 Campaign team: Greenbelt Alliance, Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition, Working [...]

Oakland—Oakland International Boulevard TOD Plan

Oakland—Oakland Broadway/Valdez District Specific Plan Planning process started: 2008 Plan and EIR scheduled adopted: July 2014 Campaign team: Greenbelt Alliance, East Bay Housing Organizations [...]

Oakland—Lake Merritt Station Area Plan

Mountain View—Mountain View El Camino Real Planning process started: Summer 2013 Plan and EIR scheduled for adoption: Q4 2014/ Q1 2015 Campaign team members: Greenbelt Alliance; Peninsula [...]

Fremont—Fremont Warm Springs BART Area Specific Plan Planning process started: 2012 Plan and EIR scheduled for adoption: January 2014 Campaign team: Congregations Organizing for Renewal & [...]

Concord—Downtown Concord BART Specific Plan Planning process started: 2013 Plan and EIR adopted: July 2014 Campaign team: Greenbelt Alliance, East Bay Housing Organizations Location on Transit [...]

…past Catalyst Funder List

The first ten year’s of GCC’s work was based on the theory that strategically aligning funders to support advocacy groups influencing local and regional plans would spur development [...]

In 2013, GCC began providing funding to catalytic development projects located near transit, with the goal of leveraging other funding to move planning into pavement. Current Year Catalyst [...]

Great Communities Collaborative (GCC) envisions a socially equitable, economically prosperous, and environmentally sustainable Bay Area where communities are engaged in shaping their own future. [...]

Our GCC Partners include regional policy leaders, community groups, businesses, local and regional government agencies, and funders. These leaders and experts lend their knowledge on crafting [...]

Latest News Check here for updates about the Great Communities Collaborative’s campaigns, platforms, and victories. We will also post about exciting and interesting research and work in the [...]

The goal of Great Communities Collaborative is to ensure that the San Francisco Bay Area is made up of healthy, thriving neighborhoods that are affordable to all and linked to regional employment [...]