Welcome to the Pension Funds and Urban Revitalization website. The aim of this site is to provide you with an overview of the project, research to date, and upcoming events.
The goals of this project are:
- to investigate and promote best practice in urban economic development by U.S. public sector pension funds, and
- to expand the number of urban revitalization projects undertaken by these funds.
View the detailed project goals.
The project is funded by the Rockefeller and Ford Foundations and connects with the Rockefeller Foundation's work to improve employment and housing in the United States, and the Ford Foundation's Asset Building and Community Development Program.
Pension Funds and Urban Revitalization is a joint project of the School of Geography, Oxford University Centre for the Environment, (Professor Gordon L. Clark and Dr Tessa Hebb, assisted by Dr Lisa Hagerman and Dr Terry Babcock-Lumish) and the Pensions and Capital Stewardship Project of the Harvard Labor and Worklife Program at the Harvard Law School, with sponsorship from the Rockefeller Foundation and Ford Foundation.