The All-In Cities Toolkit offers actionable strategies that advocates and policymakers can use to advance racial equity. Each tool contains information on important policy considerations, who can implement it, and examples of where it is working. 

Good Jobs:

• Community benefits agreements
• Equitable contracting and procurement
• Living wage
• Minimum wage
• Paid family leave
• Paid sick leave
• Worker-owned cooperatives

Economic security:

• Ban the box / fair chance hiring
• Financial empowerment centers
• Incentivized savings accounts
• Local and targeted hiring
• Reform inequitable court fines and fees

Homegrown talent:

• Apprenticeships
• Cradle-to-career systems
• Summer youth employment
• Quality preschool for low-income children

Healthy neighborhoods:

• Commercial community land trusts
• Equitable transit-oriented development
• Healthy food business development
• Health in all policies
• Joint use

Housing / anti-displacement:

• Community land trusts
• Housing trust funds
• Inclusionary zoning
• Just cause
• Legal assistance to prevent evictions
• Tenant/community opportunity to purchase

Democracy and justice:

• Limit police use of force
• Racial equity impact assessments
• Reform inequitable court fines and fees