HOUSING CODE ENFORCEMENT AND DERELICT BUILDINGS —
The housing code should be enforced although where there is need for a loan, this money should be made available for improvement of this property.
Owners of derelict buildings should be located and penalized.
LANDLORD AND TENANT RESPONSIBILITIES —
Tenants and owners should share jointly the responsibility of maintaining a building properly.
NEIGHBORHOOD CONTROL OF CITY SERVICES —
Citizens must keep proper authorities notified when conditions in a neighborhood are undesirable.
CRIME PREVENTION AND ENFORCEMENT —
Steps must be taken to involve citizen participation in crime prevention. (a) Additional recreational facilities for youth, (b) developing projects with federal grants and private industry cooperation to obtain jobs for unemployed.
RACE RELATIONS —
Steps must be taken to promote better communications between the races.
Political leaders should sponsor programs to bring citizens together to discuss solutions to common problems.
SOURCES OF INCOME FOR THE CITY, INCLUDING TYPES OF TAXATION
Additional money from the state and federal government.
Originally published in The Paper, August 1970.
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