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The Infrastructure of Wellbeing

The new infrastructure package could be one of the nation’s most consequential investments in equitable wellbeing — but only if we make it so.

In a new Viewpoint essay for Planning magazine, FFI’s CEO Katya Fels Smyth and Brookings Senior Fellow Xavier de Souza Briggs make the case: we must reckon with how past investments have been used to institutionalize and deepen inequities and make concerted decisions to steer funding into the creation of a built environment that provides universal access to wellbeing.

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