Recommendations from residents
- Improved bus and pedestrian connectivity from neighborhoods to light rail stations, ensuring ticket machines work, and adding extra trains during rush hour and sports games to increase ridership and enhance rider experience.
- Property tax relief and housing improvement grants
- Educating people on the true value of their homes
- More desirable incentives for private contractors to build affordable housing
- Creating minority business opportunities along the rail
- Enhance resident representation in decision-making processes that impacts their communities.
- Help seniors “age in place”
- Public officials should look deeper into economic and educational disparities that underlie housing affordability.
- Many lower-income residents have more pressing issues than transportation and – besides housing – want to see improvements in their economic opportunities, the safety of their neighborhoods, and access to grocery stores.