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Results <br />kindergarten should receive a child savings account matched by a <br />corporate or federal fund. <br />17. Free Tax Preparation Service <br />18. Address the homelessness crisis. City beautification projects. Economic <br />development opportunities. <br />19. Create and preserve affordable housing with the structures already <br />existing. Provide incentives to property owners to renovate properties to <br />clean and affordable housing. Mandate a generous percent of new <br />development to affordable units. Promote business attraction by making <br />the licensing, inspection, zoning processes more affordable, streamlined <br />and timely. <br />20. Change our image. Focus on reducing crime and rebranding Santa Ana. <br />Show positive stories in the OC Register and other media -we are <br />predominantly featured for negative stories. Look at what other successful <br />cities around us do and use their best practices. <br />21. Improve the infrastructure and safety of downtown to attract homebuyers <br />and business owners. <br />22. Improve rundown buildings, prevent youth from joining gangs and provide <br />resources to communities so they thrive and get out of poverty. <br />23. Develop a vision statement of what we want our community to be (e.g., A <br />resilient community that honors our past while innovating toward the <br />future and helping our community members achieve a life of well-being <br />together), develop a global strategy to achieve, and detail the local <br />objectives to achieve that goal. All with experts helping develop the plan <br />with local input. The City of LA recently developed a resilient strategy and <br />this seems a great idea for our community to develop soon as well. <br />24. 1 think the city of Santa Ana is doing a lot for all that live here, the answer <br />is, of course, more low-income housing. But it all takes money and it is a <br />slow process. Santa Ana is to be commended for the care it shows to its <br />citizens. <br />25. 1 have many many ideas on multiple specific topics or situations my <br />generation or my community might be facing today but I've named a <br />few in my answers to the questions asked above. <br />26. Help those who are in owner -occupied homes to stay there. Renovation <br />assistance. Crime prevention. Beautification/Maintenance requirements. <br />I don't want cars covered in tarps parked on my street. Nor do I want <br />houses whose roofs are a series of tarps either (which are likely to be <br />worthy of red -tags, which we are unbelievably lax in enforcing). Santa <br />Ana needs to protect its middle class. <br />27. Parking solutions, building more affordable housing, re -housing the <br />homeless population with supportive services <br />City of Santa Ana <br />75A-242 <br />2020-2024 Consolidated Plan <br />Resident Survey Results <br />