Strengthen Your Own Community

Community investment and revitalization is the best thing we can do to stabilize our own neighborhoods and communities. Revitalization creates jobs provides opportunities for residents who otherwise don't have adequate access to goods and services. Quality self development promotes the recycling of economic dollars and growth in otherwise poor, distressed and crime filled neighborhoods. 

Traditional subsidize developments only goes so far. Although it has its place, corporate development does not recycle funds back into the community and raise the economic base of the constituents. Tax credits and subsides only benefit those who live outside the community from an economic stand point. Communities would strive better with the return of the butcher, baker, seamstress, local doctor, tailor and other customary family services that have disappeared from the community over the past 2 and half decades. Corner stores sell beer at an alarming rate. Then tax credits and subsidies fund the development of alcohol treatment centers and health care facilities. Why not develop and support corner stores that sell fresh vegetables, fruit and healthy food products. Why not provide subsidies that support small business owner in the community that offer health sustaining products, goods and services. 

Healthy economically priced food, clothing and shelter are the ingredients that stabilize neighborhoods. These ingredients  reduce crime, create jobs and community relationships among neighborhood inhabitants. Community economics and the reduction of crime is a direct function of the people that live in the community itself. If the quality of goods and services are weak the community will be weak. Strengthen the quality of goods and services and you strengthen the community in which they exist. Not to mention the creation of jobs. 

To often the focus is on extracting dollars from the community in stead of infusing dollars into the community. Give a person a job in their community and they will buy goods and services in their community. Don't and the result is opportunistic crime within the community, or worse the creation of illegal business that breeds violence and crime. From my perspective its a simple solution, invest in and revitalize your own community and you will single handedly become a part of the economic development of our own community.

For more information on how you can develop your own community call us at 215-395-6220