Metro Parks Tacoma has plans to build a brand new community center in a public-private partnership in the Eastside of Tacoma. The Eastside of Tacoma is typically defined using I-5 as border both on its Southern and Western border. This area is extremely diverse and has a lower average income relative to other parts of Tacoma, Washington State, and the nation. According to a feasibility study carried out by ARC Architects, the percentage of households with a medium income over $50,000 a year is 37.5% compared to 50.1% nationally. Currently with a large proportion of young families, the total population for the Eastside is expected to grow within the next few years. The cost of living is lower in eastside then other parts of Tacoma and the …show more content…
These recent events have left the neighborhoods in the eastside feeling forgotten about and disadvantaged. The current service providers in the area are provided in limitation by Metro Parks Tacoma (MPT), City of Tacoma, Boys & Girls Club, and local Churches. MPT runs the Portland Avenue Community Center and the Eastside Indoor Pool, both of which are visibly aging and to be replaced by this new Community Center once built. These facilities lack the modern technologies and ascetics making it look like the services provided in these areas, poor. The City operates the Lighthouse Activity Center which currently provides services to seniors including social groups and lunch. After closing a branch, the Boys and Girls Club runs a small program out of Bethlehem Baptist Church. Because of the income levels of the area, there are no private sector providers on the east side of …show more content…
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Riverbank, a large city, has a district with a huge problem. Grant’s Valley, although booming with business, is a quaint and historic part of Riverbank that the residents want to keep that way. The business aspect of Grant’s Valley has an ever growing need for more space for tourists to park and there is just too much traffic for the area to withstand. Riverbank’s historically quaint Grant’s Valley would benefit from the destruction of the unused junior-high on 35th and Princeton and the new construction of a one hundred space parking lot and a new park. This would attract more people and lessen the unattractive curb appeal of the parking lot in the residential area of Grant’s Valley that the residents want
Overall, safety and poverty seem to be the main issues for children in the city of East St. Louis. Many of the families are said to live on less than 7,500$ a year and the city is basically described as a dump. With a lack of public services such as trach pick-up residents are forced to place their trash all over the city. Raw sewage is a big problem and even flows onto the playground for the children.
Euclid Avenue, referred to as “Millionaire’s Row” from the late 1800s to the 1920s, is one of the oldest corridors in Cleveland, Ohio. This corridor has undergone a number of redevelopment projects in the past century, as the city itself transformed from a commercial town in the 1800s, to the industrial city it is today. Large areas of the Euclid Avenue corridor were demolished in the 1960s, as part of a series of urban renewal programs. These programs were established to revitalize office and housing markets in downtown Cleveland and to further encourage development of University Circle, a neighborhood of cultural, educational and medical institutions, located on the east side of Cleveland. The Euclid Avenue Corridor continues to experience various redevelopment projects, in order to secure its economic position in U.S. and international markets.
According to Realtytrac.com, 1 in every 505 houses in Pasco is foreclosed, and 34% of these foreclosed houses end up being owned by the bank (Pasco County Real Estate Trends & Market Info,2016). That equates to thousands of square feet of housing that is not being occupied or used for any specific purpose. With money raised from a sales tax similar to "Pennies for Pasco", a number of foreclosed houses could be purchased, renovated, and used to house people lacking a home. Homes in New Port Richey, for example, average at about 130,000$.( Pasco Real Estate - Pasco County FL Homes For Sale ,2016). With 139 Million dollars, over 1,000 houses could be bought. Due to the intense humidity and heat during the summer, this type of housing unit would be especially important during the summer months. Housing would also be helpful in the cold months when temperatures drop into the 40s. It would give the homeless an opportunity to have a comfortable place to sleep, eat, and become grounded enough to start seeking job
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...n, assistant director of the City of Los Angeles Housing Authority, was put in charge of the redevelopment of Chavez Ravine. He envisioned a public housing space for thousands of low rent housing units. The site of the redeveloped land was to be called Elysian Park Heights Public Housing(Fig. 1), here the fist inhabitants would be from the few hundred people evicted from their homes to make way for the public housing project. Frank Wilkinson states himself in The Documentary film Chavez Ravine: A Los Angeles story, He affirms, "We prepared certificates to every family (the certificate said) when the certificate was built you, and your family would be the first priority to get there, you can pick the part of the project you wanted to live in." This would prove to be the start of the lies and broken promises handed to the residents of the Chavez Ravine communities .
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This housing affordability crisis is stripping away it’s diversity at increasing rates and I feel that not enough is being done to restore it. Liz Pfeffer article “Is the Bay Area in a Housing Bubble or a Crisis?” describes the situation as, “San Francisco’s chronic problem is a lack of housing for middle and lower-income people. It’s not that they can’t afford it, it’s that it doesn’t exist”. Officials should collaborate on creating solutions to the root causes and offer alternatives that would release some of the pressure. I would suggest promoting micro-homes or smaller scaled homes, limiting foreign investors’s purchases of single-family homes, or expanding campuses of employers to areas that are not heavily populated. It is not too late to restore the balance but it will take collaboration and team work. I am urging these officials and activists to try and save the beloved culture of this area and help retain it as a place where social justice is recognized and
Over the next 160 years Central Park has seen many transformations. An early decline in the 1900’’s followed by a revitalization by Robert Moses
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Inner City Communities are often areas which are both densely populated and deteriorating(quote). The areas and its residents have strongly been correlated with social and economical disparity. Residents of inner city communities have been plagued with problems including: “high unemployment, poor health care, inadequate educational opportunities, dilapidated housing, high infant mortality, and extreme poverty” (Attitudes and Perceptions, n.d). Though the inner city communities have been stricken with
Four years ago the good citizens of this city voted to allow city funds to be allocated toward a new civic center located in the heart of Irvine. Four years ago the good citizens of this great city had no idea that a terrible pandemic would threaten their very lives and the lives of their loved ones. When signs of the flu season came around in late October this year, no one would have imaged that a disease, often with symptoms like a common cold, would have by the end of the year killed almost half of those killed in the Great War itself. Places all across the nation have had to deal with the sick and dying and Irvine is no exception.
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