Park Equity, Life Expectancy, and Power Building: An Overview

of cities with limited tax-bases and large low-income It also found that Blacks and Latinos are more likely populations to provide parks and recreation services.9 than Asian Americans and whites to live in cities and Tax and fiscal restructuring, like California’s Proposition 13, communities with less park space.5 PARK EQUITY, LIFE EXPECTANCY, AND POWER BUILDING 1 Half of LA County residents live. [...] acres of parkland per 1,000 residents, 32% of LA worsened these conditions and devastated the budgets • If all of the census tracts in LA County with park of local park agencies in the years following its 1978 deficits and low tree canopy levels had an increase enactment. [...] Approximately 164,700 years in advisory board comprised of seven base-building life expectancy could be gained across the population LA nonprofits and a representative of the LA County of all people living in census tracts in LA County with Department of Public Health found that increasing park park deficits and low tree canopy levels.iii acreage has the potential to increase life expectancy for •. [...] Funders should support community-based allocations for their park agencies and establish organizations to conduct independent initiatives to address this primary driver of built community oversight of revenue allocations environment inequities and reverse park and and expenditures for transparency and green space deficits. [...] Park developers should require contractors and strategic power building among an expanded who build or retrofit parks in high-need areas to network of base-building organizations is the key to engage in local, targeted hiring practices and reversing biased policies, procedures, practices, and work with non-traditional employment agencies norms and distributing parks and their associated to employ.