{"id":3047,"date":"2023-01-17T15:58:33","date_gmt":"2023-01-17T23:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/eri\/?page_id=3047"},"modified":"2023-06-20T15:00:25","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T22:00:25","slug":"just-equitable-central-coast","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/eri\/publications\/just-equitable-central-coast\/","title":{"rendered":"Towards a Just and Equitable Central Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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December 2021<\/p>\n

The Fund for Santa Barbara, UCSB Blum Center on Poverty, Inequality, and Democracy, and the USC Equity Research Institute<\/em><\/p>\n

The Fund for Santa Barbara, in partnership with the UCSB Blum Center on Poverty, Inequality, and Democracy, and the USC Equity Research Institute launched the first Central Coast Regional Equity Study over the course of 2020-21. The goal of this research project is to deepen our understanding of regional disparities, facilitate a region-wide conversation, and support the planning and implementation of initiatives focused on advancing social, health, environmental, and economic equity. Covering Santa Barbara and Ventura counties, the study is designed to yield a periodically updated equity database, of use for teaching, research, policy, and action. The initial data compilation component of this two-county regional project was initiated in the summer of 2020.<\/p>\n

Over the past several decades, socio-economic inequality has been on the rise, manifesting as disparities in income, employment, education, health and environmental burdens that affect communities of color in Ventura and Santa Barbara Counties. The depth of these systemic inequities has been both revealed and deepened by the pandemic. They also put equity at the forefront of our priorities as we set our sights toward recovery, and a future of genuinely shared, environmentally sustainable prosperity. The Central Coast Regional Equity Study uses rigorous, community engaged research both to bring socioeconomic inequities\u2014and the price we pay for them\u2014to light, and to establish concrete guideposts for regional equity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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