This Health Impact Assessment (HIA) examines the potential health impacts that could result from investments made by the Healthy Neighborhoods Equity Fund (HNEF), a $30 million private equity fund model that would consider the community, environmental, and health benefits of a proposed project as well as the financial risks and returns.
The analysis was conducted by using three Transit Oriented Development (TOD) projects in the City of Boston (Bartlett Place, Madison Tropical Parcel 10, and Parcel 25), and their cumulative impacts as case studies, since they are potentially aligned with the type of projects that the HNEF would support. The results of the HIA are intended to help define the health-related metrics of the HNEF, as well as to inform interested developers and potential investors about the anticipated social and economic changes that could result from HNEF (and by association any TOD) supported projects.