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| Shared Prosperity Working Group |
The Shared Prosperity Working Group advocates for equitable sharing of regional economic
development and the benefits derived from it. Today, the Washington Metropolitan region reflects
inequitable development with significantly greater economic development present in the western half
of the region. Similarly, the western side of the region also reflects a disproportionately higher level of
prosperity derived from economic development.
.
This regional inequity is well documented in a Brookings Institution Center on Urban and
Metropolitan Policy report released in 1999 by Myron Orfield titled A Region Divided: The State of
Growth in Greater Washington, D.C. Since its release, the "divides" by income, race, education, jobs
and transportation have actually grown worse. Specific issues include preventing the displacement of
people from homes and businesses and expanding affordable housing and job opportunities in
accessible locations throughout the region.
WREN's members launched this working group at WREN's first membership meeting on March 6,
2007. In 2008, Shared Prosperity is planning eight meetings. Interested organizations and
individuals are invited to participate.
For more information, contact the Co-Chairs:
Cheryl Cort
Policy Director
Coalition for Smarter Growth
cheryl@smartergrowth.net
and/or
Dominic Moulden
Executive Director
ONE DC
dmoulden@onedconline.org
development and the benefits derived from it. Today, the Washington Metropolitan region reflects
inequitable development with significantly greater economic development present in the western half
of the region. Similarly, the western side of the region also reflects a disproportionately higher level of
prosperity derived from economic development.
.
This regional inequity is well documented in a Brookings Institution Center on Urban and
Metropolitan Policy report released in 1999 by Myron Orfield titled A Region Divided: The State of
Growth in Greater Washington, D.C. Since its release, the "divides" by income, race, education, jobs
and transportation have actually grown worse. Specific issues include preventing the displacement of
people from homes and businesses and expanding affordable housing and job opportunities in
accessible locations throughout the region.
WREN's members launched this working group at WREN's first membership meeting on March 6,
2007. In 2008, Shared Prosperity is planning eight meetings. Interested organizations and
individuals are invited to participate.
For more information, contact the Co-Chairs:
Cheryl Cort
Policy Director
Coalition for Smarter Growth
cheryl@smartergrowth.net
and/or
Dominic Moulden
Executive Director
ONE DC
dmoulden@onedconline.org
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