Address their concerns . They are no different from us . Polls show the concerns are crime ,the economy and housing . We have documents many times here how the Dems have failed minorities regarding crime . The article posted addresses 2 of the concerns in a single sentence .
Parents say it is because of the dangers their families face just walking the 50 yards from their homes at The Commons, a federally subsidized housing development, to the pool.
The economy? Expand the ideas of Jack Kemp with Enterprise Zones . Actually that idea goes back to Reconstruction when General Sherman's Special Field Order 15 allotted 40 acres to some families and the Government would loan them a mule to work the land .
Kemp was a QB for the Buffalo Bills before he became a politician . He was ahead of his time .He saw urban blight in the Dem plantation every Sunday in the neighborhoods surrounding Buffalo's War Memorial Stadium. As a politician he set goals to address it.
Kemp borrowed the ideas of Brit planner Peter Hall;who in turn borrowed from successful innovation in Hong Kong and Singapore .
The main idea was reduce regulations and taxes and provide other incentives to entice minority owned businesses to open in blighted areas(cap gain preferences ;investment tax credits ,wage credits ) .These zones were called Empowerment zones or Enterprise Zones .What would start as low wage opportunities would evolve as the businesses grew and the workforce learned more skills .
Kemp as a Rep and later Sec HUD in the 1980s started to introduce legislation for these zones . Reagan and GHW Bush would've signed such legislation into law. But the Dem Congress refused to pass them until 1993 in an Omnibus bill.
But some states had created such zones . In all cases employment in the communities increased . A GAO study of the Maryland zones found employment increases of 63% and 76% in 2 of the zones. However the "nonpartisan" GAO could not attribute the increases to the zones themselves .
A study of the New Jersey zones found that for every dollar spent in zone activity ,$1.90 in taxes were generated ....a significant return on investment .
Bubba renamed them as "empowerment zones " and finally Congress passed a bill more than a decade after it was proposed. And of course Bubba screwed the plan up .Kemp envisioned hundreds of these zones. Bubba picked 6 cities and 3 rural areas . There were 520 applications across the nation for the 9 spots.
The concept works . Despite a lack of empirical data it is generally understood by planners to be a success. What is needed is an expansion of the concept across the country.
The big caveat would be that these zones will not be as successful as they can be if crime is not addressed .Who in their right mind would open a business subject to routine if not daily in some cases plunder and vandalism ?
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