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Featured: APA LEARN SPOTLIGHT Housing Affordability in Your Community

Many communities want to support housing affordability but want to balance it with preserving community character. Explore public-sector planning tools to encourage affordable housing while affirmatively furthering fair housing with one of the most popular courses in APA Learn, the Affordable Housing Series.

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Podcast: People Behind the Plans with John Rahaim

During NPC19 in San Francisco, series host Courtney Kashima, AICP, and John Rahaim, the city and county planning director, covered issues currently facing the city, from the housing crisis and homelessness to design review and short-term rentals. Rahaim recounted San Francisco's early experience with Airbnb and stressed the importance of the Citywide LGBTQ+ Cultural Heritage Strategy.

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Updated AICP Certification Guide

Are you applying for AICP Certification in June to be eligible for the November AICP Certification Exam? AICP Certification Guide: Part 1 has been updated! While the criteria remain the same, these updates make it clearer for all types of planners how their experience qualifies for AICP Certification.

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Apply For an APA Foundation Scholarship

APA Foundation scholarships aim to make the profession more diverse and representative of the communities that planners serve. By providing financial assistance to at-need students, the APA Foundation is committed to make planning education more accessible and equitable. Apply now through June 20.

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    Diversity and Inclusion Training Series

    Planning for diversity and inclusion requires intentional efforts to dismantle systems of oppression and advance liberation and self-determination. This course equips planners with concepts and skills to perform inclusive and equitable planning and work effectively in diverse communities.
  • Economic Development | Infrastructure | Transportation

    Land Value Capture for Infrastructure Finance

    This forum will share innovations — and the pragmatic nuts and bolts needed to make them happen — by emphasizing state and local policy changes that are enabling effective approaches to land value capture.

  • Place-Based Power: Communities and Utilities

    In the context of increasing poverty rates, the moral and economic urgency of addressing climate change, and demonstrated commitments to energy efficiency by municipalities and utilities, this session presents a new framework for energy planning in which cities, utilities, and partners work together to meet communities’ unique needs.

  • Planning for a Clean Energy Future

    Explore new data on energy use in every U.S. city, see a real time analysis of a city’s energy planning options, and learn from cities with award-winning strategies to integrate energy data in decision making and planning. The  presentation features two of the DOE Cities-LEAP local government-led teams of funding recipients, Portland, Oregon and Bellevue, Washington.
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The Value of AICP-Certified Planners

Having AICP-certified planners on your team assures quality, credibility, and ethics for your organization and the communities you serve. When you are hiring, look for the AICP credential in your screening process, and support your staff in earning the AICP Certification. Learn more at planning.org/AICP/employers.

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