Healthy Communities
Healthy communities are environments that prioritize and promote physical, mental, and social well-being through accessible healthcare, green spaces, affordable housing, and community engagement.
ResourceStewarding Alberta’s Future Part 1 – Green Communities Guide
The Green Communities Guide will be an essential tool to help elected officials, municipal planners, developers, real estate associations, stewardship groups and citizens develop strategies to conserve water, protect water quality, conserve valuable agricultural land, and protect critical open space and wildlife habitat. Through the guide, municipalities, stewardship groups, and developers will be informed about the innovative approaches other communities are taking to avoid, mitigate, or reduce the impacts of growth and development, to maintain the flow of ecological goods and services from their landscapes.
ResourceCrowsnest Pass Affordable Housing Needs Assessment
The Crowsnest Pass Affordable Housing Needs Assessment combined quantitative (statistical) data analysis with targeted Interviews and Focus Group Meetings (qualitative analyses) in order to identify and explore: Population and demographic trends; Household incomes; Housing availability (housing supply, form and tenure including market, nearmarket and non-market housing); Housing issues related to adequacy, suitability, affordability and accessibility; Other indicators of housing/economic hardship where data was available; and Impacts that the community may be experiencing as a result of declining housing affordability and choice.
ResourceEcologically Sustainable Industrial Parks: An Oxymoron? Presentation by Ramond Cote
An educational program offering presentations geared to teaching Alberta communities about how to manage growth in a way that promotes sustainability, supports a robust economy, encourages collaboration, and improves the quality of life of its citizens.
ResourceHealthy Homes Calgary Participant Experience
DVD of participants relating their experience with the Healthy Homes Calgary program and the difference it made to their lives. This resource is available as a hard copy in DVD format in the AREF office.
ResourceScattered Site Housing Challenges for formerly Homeless
The initial project was a pilot for a nation-wide qualitative study of the attitudes and opinions of private Landlords to investigate their potential to help solve homelessness. However, it became clear in the preliminary stages of research, that a greater understanding was needed around the environmental factors affecting housing of formerly homeless tenants, particularly with regards to the scattered site housing model employed by the Alex’s housing programs, HomeBase and Pathways to Housing.
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Creating Intelligent Livable Cities, Presentation by Marilyn Hamilton
An educational program offering presentations geared to teaching Alberta communities about how to manage growth in a way that promotes sustainability, supports a robust economy, encourages collaboration, and improves the quality of life of its citizens.
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Land Use Simulator Website Alberta Tomorrow
Simulations of changes in land use over time as well as forecasts based on historical rates of change.
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Start-up Marketing and Outreach
Development of educational outreach tools to be used to assist in community and stakeholder outreach and communications that would enhance the understanding and benefits of natural areas within the urban development context of Edmonton & Area.
ResourceA Community Guide to the Planning Process
The purpose of the Guide is to help community volunteers deal with planning issues in an effective and rewarding manner.
ResourceAssessing the Proximate Value of Parks and Open Space to Residential Properties in Alberta
The Alberta Recreation and Parks Association recognizes that the increasing urbanization of Alberta has significant implications parks planning, quality of life and economically sustainable communities. The premise, upon which the Proximate Principle is based, is that residential properties located near an amenity such as a park, open space or water way, will attract a higher capitalized value. Further, the higher capitalized value will result in incrementally higher levels of municipal property taxes, which when aggregated, are theorized to be sufficient to pay for the annual costs related to the development and maintenance of the amenity.
ResourceCoronation and District Seniors Housing Needs Assessment
The report offers valuable data and information on the need for seniors’ affordable housing in rural communities.