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Throughout the spring and summer, a group of East Garfield Park community leaders and residents worked together to identify a shared vision for preserving neighborhood affordability and preventing displacement, along with matching draft goals and strategies.

Given that some residents and community stakeholders were not able to attend these community meetings in July and August, we are sending out this survey for your input on the following working drafts as well as for you to submit your own ideas on goals and strategies for preventing displacement in East Garfield Park.

We estimate this survey will take about 9 minutes to complete. We thank you for participating!

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* 1. First Name

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* 2. Last Name

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* 3. E-mail Address

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* 4. Zip code

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* 5. Community organization affiliation (if any)

DRAFT VISION: East Garfield Park is a community where all residents, businesses, and civic institutions are stable, healthy, and able to access opportunity.

DRAFT MISSION: To ensure new investment and development greatly benefits legacy residents, legacy businesses, and civic institutions by preserving affordability, preventing all forms of displacement, and creating economic opportunity.

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* 6. Is there anything missing from the above vision and mission statement?

Review Goals & Strategies 

Below is a list of goals and examples of strategies that surfaced from the various community planning meetings. Please provide your thoughts on these goals and your ideas for strategies you think would be most impactful in meeting the above vision and mission.
Goal 1. Establish and strengthen a coalition of community leaders to ensure accountability and increase legacy resident civic engagement and power

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* 7. Do you agree with this goal?

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* 8. What strategies do you think can help support this goal?

(For example: convene legacy residents, pastors, youth, and non-profit leaders in a new coalition, or, establish active block clubs across neighborhood to bring community together)

Goal 2. Strong local businesses that create jobs and raise incomes for local residents

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* 9. Do you agree with this goal?

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* 10. What strategies do you think can help support this goal?
                                       
(For example: dedicated grants or other financing, commitments from businesses to train and hire local youth and adults)

Goal 2. Residents have improved access to homeownership

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* 11. Do you agree with this goal?

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* 12. What strategies do you think can help support this goal?

(For example, a rent-to-own program to provide opportunity for homeownership and improve credit, or, limited-equity housing cooperatives to increase homeownership and take real estate off the speculative market)

Goal 3. Tenants are able to afford staying in their home

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* 13. Do you agree with this goal?

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* 14. What strategies do you think can help support this goal?

(For example, expanding housing choice voucher programs, preserving "naturally occurring" affordable housing, or, establish a city-backed Housing Affordability and Stability plan)

Goal 4. Homeowners are able to afford staying in their home

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* 15. Do you agree with this goal?

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* 16. What strategies do you think can help support this goal?

(Ex/ a fund to support repairs and maintenance for old buildings and to address back taxes for longtime residents or a tax relief program for low-income, long-time homeowners)

Goal 5. Community residents have input over new development

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* 17. Do you agree with this goal?

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* 18. What strategies do you think can help support this goal?

(Ex/  local Community Benefit Agreement Ordinance to require developers to get community input for large projects and to provide baseline benefits to local residents (such as higher wages, training opportunities, etc.) or requiring that city-owned vacant land provide community benefits to legacy neighborhood residents)

Goal 6. Increased community ownership of local assets 

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* 19. Do you agree with this goal?

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* 20. What strategies do you think can help support this goal?

(For example, crowdfunding mechanism for community control and ownership of city-owned vacant lots, or, establish a local Community Land Trust to develop vacant lots and/or acquire and rehabilitate existing housing for low-income homeowners)

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