Grand Challenges: Urban Equity Collaborative

Willow Lung-Amam Authors New Book, “The Right to Suburbia: Combating Gentrification on the Urban Edge”
January 31, 2025

UMD’s Urban Equity Collaborative Provides Training, Workshops, and Policy Action for Strengthening Community-based Institutions
September 30, 2024

Whose 'Right to Suburbia'? 
September 24, 2024

SPH’s Devon Payne-Sturges Earns Top Environmental Health Honor
September 3, 2024

New Tools for Keeping Immigrant-Owned Shops in Place
July 26, 2024

Urban Equity Collaborative Launches First Cohort of the Community Fellows Program
February 23, 2024

UMD Professors Launch Collective to Assist Communities, Activists with Urban Equity Issues (The Diamondback)
October 13, 2023

Grand Challenges: Newly-Launched Urban Equity Collaborative Hosts Open House 
October 5, 2023

April 16, 2026
Urban Equity Collaborative Celebration, 4:00-5:30 pm
The event will take place in the Great Space in The School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, 3835 Campus Drive, College Park, MD 20742
For more information, visit: https://urbanequitycollab.org/. 
 

Cities have never been more important. Currently, over 80% of people in the U.S. live and work in cities. By 2050, almost 90% of the U.S. population, and close to 70% of the world’s population will reside in cities. The Urban Equity Collaborative seeks to strengthen community-based institutions and the work of community activists around issues of urban inequality. It aims to incubate and disseminate durable research and policy strategies that promote economic, racial, and gender justice and shifts power towards communities on the frontlines of struggle.

To accelerate creative solutions to the trenchant problems facing urban communities, the Urban Equity Collaborative employs an intersectional, multidisciplinary, and collaborative approach to action research and collective inquiry that upholds equitable community partnerships. A unique feature of this initiative is its community fellows program where community leaders, including community-based organizational representatives, organizers, and activists, are invited to become researchers-in-residence.

The collaborative’s work will focus on issues of dispossession and displacement, and specifically issues of affordable housing access, immigrant rights, and small business displacement. Through capacity and knowledge exchange with communities, the Urban Equity Collaborative will leverage the collective expertise of university researchers in the service of community-led work.