Everyone should have the choice of living in a neighborhood where they can thrive.
- Most place-based conditions have place-based policy solutions
- Neighborhoods work best when they are socially, economically and racially inclusive.
- Quality housing should be affordable at all income levels
- Neighborhoods, cities and regions should be inclusive in proportion to the makeup of the metro-area economically, socially and racially
- Strong institutions and facilities are essential to healthy neighborhoods
- Neighbor engagement in making change is vital
- Neighborhood revitalization requires strategic planning to address the myriad of systemic policies and practices that have devalued the neighborhood.
- Healthy neighborhoods build community wealth and upward mobility
- Advocacy for systemic change to undo racial segregation must be intentional.
- Racial segregation perpetuated by racist policies and practice is at the root of most of the disparities in health, education, wealth, employment between predominately white and black neighborhoods.