Strategies

Provide funding via tax credits at the state and local level to support development and rehabilitation costs of low income rental housing

Establish voluntary formal groups of residents who work together to create a unified voice, enhance living conditions in their neighborhood, and address neighborhood concerns

Allow community members to gather, socialize, walk, run, bike, skate, etc. on streets temporarily to closed to motorized traffic; also called Ciclovía programs

Require employers in an affected jurisdiction to provide paid time off for employees to use when ill or injured

Lend materials, offer gathering space, and provide educational, civic, and social programming; open to the community and publicly funded

Create designated tax districts that generate revenue to invest in affordable housing initiatives, blight remediation, and economic development efforts