Center for Community Innovation (CCI)

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The Center for Community Innovation’s mission is to nurture effective solutions that expand economic opportunity, diversify housing options, and strengthen connection to place. CCI works toward more equitable, resilient futures for communities. CCI conducts community-engaged research to understand the problems and identify solutions around pressing housing, land use, and urban sustainability issues.


The Center houses three major projects: The Urban Displacement ProjectPlanning Sustainable Regions, and Planning for Jobs