Clean up and redevelop brownfield sites by eliminating barriers to and creating incentives for environmental cleanup. Work to reorient existing state and federal economic development funds to include these sites. Encourage innovative financing tools that make inexpensive, renewable capital readily available for brownfields investment. Cities like Cleveland, Detroit and Chicago are redeveloping their brownfields as a way to create jobs, generate tax revenue and improve the environmental quality of their inner cities. Promote public safety by encouraging citizens, law enforcement agencies and governments to work together for safer communities.
Fear of crime diminishes quality of life and limits people's freedom and behavior.
In many communities, prison-building continues to skyrocket, while crime prevention funding wanes. Proactive programs like community policing actively involves police officers in neighborhoods and brings a new spirit of partnership to crime prevention. Shift the focus of the federal disaster relief system from cure to prevention by promoting safe land-use policies, especially along waterways and near fault zones. Reduce the risk of disaster by improving building codes and maintaining infrastructure.