Submitted for your approval, Carl Anthony, founder of Breakthrough Communities and the Urban Habitat Program, recently compiled a list of 10 Land Use strategies to promote a just city in an YES! Magazine's Spring 2010 issue America: The Remix.
- Develop a widely shared, long-range vision for social justice and set targets.
- Find short term soultions for marginalized communities that benefit society as a whole in the long term.
- Redevelop older inner-ring suburbs as an alternative to sprawl.
- Manage vacant properties (with non-profits.)
- Replace aging or underused commercial strips with revitalized corridors.
- Set aside 20% of new residential development for affordable housing.
- Build and strengthen social justice institutions.
- Reduce the patterns of concentrated wealth/poverty in neighborhoods.
- Advocate metropolitan growth strategies.
- Create opportunities (business etc.) for marginalized popultations.
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