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Goal - D Goal - E

Our colleges, universities, and Career and Technical Everyone does their part to maintain stable, attractive, and
Education facilities play a leading role in the cultural, social, healthy places to live and raise families.
and economic fabric of the community.

Strategy 1: Build on existing partnerships between the City, neighborhoods, and Strategy 1: Build upon successful community initiatives to improve housing
colleges and universities, while creating opportunities for new partnerships, so conditions while encouraging community involvement and participation. Work
higher education campuses play an increasingly stronger role in the cultural life of to ensure the quality, quantity, and diversity of housing choices across and
the larger community. Build on efforts that make neighborhoods around campuses between neighborhoods.
strong and vibrant neighborhoods. Make institutional spaces and programs easily
accessible to residents. Strategy 2: Build neighborhood association capacity to work collaboratively,
assess conditions, and effect change. Strengthen neighborhood planning tools
Strategy 2: Market Greensboro as a University City, rich with colleges and and coordinate City programs and funding initiatives to support public and
universities that provide cultural and educational opportunities. Highlight the private efforts to protect and improve all neighborhoods. Create and foster
institutions that have flourished since their inception and the leading programs that partnerships among and between neighborhoods to strengthen the social
attract students from across the country and the world. fabric of Greensboro.

Strategy 3: Improve the city’s housing through effective use of code
enforcement and the strategic leveraging of resources. Encourage local
collaboration between nonprofit organizations and health providers that
highlight the importance of housing conditions and their impacts on public
health.

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