Issues
Homeownership and Affordable Housing
People need help to purchase affordable homes in the neighborhoods where they grew up. We can prevent the adverse impacts of gentrification and stabilize communities by promoting homeownership.
- Re-establish the City’s Community Development Department’s focus on making homeownership the priority. In 1984, former Senator Ralph Anderson and Lillian became the movers of the Homeownership Program in the City. Today, there is an overabundance of rentals.
- Continuing the Affordable Housing economic strategy with a dedicated focus on reducing evictions of low-income renters.
- Convene a series of public meetings throughout the community to receive testimony about housing affordability and the needs and desires of residents and to share their findings.
Economic Empowerment
Building small businesses within threatened neighborhoods provides
investment and job opportunities.
- City affirmative action policies should be evaluated with regard to procurement and hiring practices. If necessary, recommendations should be made for the creation of new guidelines, programs, or initiatives.
- Existing should be expanded to increase the number of minority firms with which the City partners, as well as to increase the number of minorities the City employs.
- Job training recruitment programs, operated by both public and community-based organizations, can be established in facility outreach centers to best serve those re-entering society.
ONE GREENVILLE
Completing and initiating infrastructure projects in the West Greenville and Southern side neighborhoods enhances value, safety, and connectivity to the rich economic, cultural, and recreational offerings of Greenville for all our residents
- Rebuilding the Queen Street Bridge in West Greenville, which was built in 192. It is important to maintain and replace the physical infrastructure that connects all neighborhoods to downtown and the employment and entertainment opportunities available in the city.
- Completing Neighborhood Improvement Bond projects- some streets and sidewalks in District 2 have not been repaired in over 50 years