The Center for Regional Change (CRC) annually accepts applications from faculty, researchers, and community partners who are interested in working with a UC Davis undergraduate and/or graduate student(s). Providers are matched with scholar(s) on the basis of interests, future goals, and passions. The overall goal of the internship is to create opportunities for engaged student scholars to deepen their skills in community engagement, social justice, and environmental issues.

The Center for Regional Change at UC Davis is collaborating with the UC-Berkeley Othering and Belonging Institute on the creation of the California Zoning Atlas. This project is part of the National Zoning Atlas effort, a collaborative of researchers digitizing, demystifying, & democratizing ~30,000 U.S.

Authored by Alyssa A. Nelson, Brandon Louie, Kelley Brian, and Nancy Erbstein, with Chris Gomez Wong, Rigoberto Ponce, Daisy L. Valdez, Mary Ann Mills, and Kamaljeet Singh-Khaira. 

Land-use impacts health. Control is local. In California, a planning document, called a “general plan” sets forth zoning and policy goals for each city and county. Communities collaboratively create such plans through many years of public meetings. The resulting general plan determines where and how much development will occur as well as what type of development (eg.

UC Davis Center for Regional Change, the California Air Resources Board (CARB), and Cal Poly San Luis Obispo have partnered to develop tools and training to support local and regional governments to reach their sustainability and climate planning goals and align them with the State’s climate commitments towards (1) decarbonization in the built environment, (2) zero emission vehicle a

In recent years, San Joaquin County has been characterized by the jobs-housing imbalance affecting much of the state. As the Bay Area’s economy has continued to grow, that growth has outpaced the region’s performance in producing a sufficient amount of additional housing affordable to low and moderate-income households. This has resulted in rapid increases in the cost of housing. San Joaquin County is one of many localities that has absorbed households leaving the higher-cost Bay Area region.

For the past several years, the CRC has enjoyed a collaboration with the California Coalition for Rural Housing (CCRH) as a way to support affordable housing developers, advocates, and policymakers at the frontlines of affordable housing production, preservation, and protection across the state. Based in Sacramento, CCRH is one of the oldest low-income housing coalitions in the country, working to promote and preserve affordable housing and sustainable, healthy communities throughout Rural California.