Housing and Neighborhood Development

We need urban renewal, not urban removal. We need development without displacement and gentrification that reinforces race and class segregation. Development should raise up low-income people, not remove them through rising property values that price people with limited incomes out of their neighborhoods.

• Ida Benderson Senior Center: Restore funding and find a convenient downtown location to re-open.
• Inclusionary Zoning Ordinance: Require a minimum percentage of low and moderate income units in new or substantially rehabilitated developments of five or more units.
• Community Benefit Agreements: Require developers to agree to negotiated enforceable performance goals for job creation, affordable housing, and compliance with civil rights, labor, and environmental laws as a condition of permitting and public economic incentives.
• Support Community Land Trusts that protect low and moderate income residents and enable neighborhoods as a whole to benefit from rising land values when neighborhoods improve.
• Transportation Justice: Better bus service and bike and pedestrian paths for the 4th District.