Advocacy is at the heart of what we do. We advocate on behalf of our members addressing low-income households needs to co-design and -create community-centered solutions that are equitable, accessible, and sustainable. 

Given the civil rights movement roots of the community development framework, our objective is to reframe place-based solutions to center and promote diverse forms of social justice at the core of community and economic development, including:

• Racial Justice: a vision for the transformation of society to eliminate racial hierarchies and advance collective liberation of historically marginalized communities (i.e. Black, Indigenous, and immigrant residents and small business owners) to harness the dignity, resources, power, and self-determination to fully thrive
  
  
• Economic Justice: creating opportunities for all to succeed regardless of sex/gender, race/ethnicity, age, disability, creed, national origin, or religion and enjoy fair labor rights
  
  
• Spatial Justice: the fair and equitable management in the built environment of socially valued resources and opportunities to use them, particularly public assets
  
  
• Environmental Justice: addresses environmental inequities, which occurs when low-income or marginalized communities are harmed by hazardous waste, resource extraction, and other land uses from which they do not benefit 
  
  
• Climate Justice: focuses on the equitable distribution of the burdens of climate change and the efforts to mitigate them in ways that do not lead to displacement or disenfranchisement 
  
  
• Procedural Justice: treating people with dignity and respect, giving residents a voice during encounters, being neutral in decision making, and conveying trustworthy motives
  
  
• Distributive Justice: the perceived fairness of an allocation or, more broadly, to how people judge what they receive