Equity

Refers to both an outcome and a process to address racial, socioeconomic, and gender disparities, to ensure fair and just access with respect to where you begin and your capacity to improve from that starting point to opportunities, including jobs, housing, education, mobility options and healthier communities. It is achieved when one’s outcomes in life are not predetermined, in a statistical or experiential sense, on their racial, economic or social identities. It requires community informed and needs based provision, implementation, and impact of services, programs and policies that reduce and, ultimately, prevent disparities. (Source: LA Metro Equity Planning and Evaluation Tool)