Civic Equity
The Civic Equity team examines how the built environment distributes wealth, carbon, and harm — and the demographics of who bears each.
What we research
The Civic Equity team studies how the built environment distributes wealth, carbon, and harm — and the demographics of who bears each. Building-related policies, penalties, and incentives are not distributed evenly. The team measures where they land.
We examine the intersections that matter: where penalty exposure concentrates, who gains access to retrofit financing, how environmental-justice risk maps onto building age and tenure, and how decarbonization programs can displace the people they were intended to help.
Our research supports community organizations, local government, and the practitioners who want to build and steward the built environment without repeating the inequities of prior generations.
Current focus areas
- Distribution of building-related penalties and incentives by geography and demographics
- Environmental justice across the standing building stock
- Access to retrofit financing for low- and moderate-income owners
- Displacement risk under decarbonization programs
Recent publications
First publications in preparation.
Team lead
Jeremy Edwards — Founder and Director of Research.