The Objectives with the ARPA funds: o Support Public Health Response – Create cleaner, safer, healthier, and more aesthetically appealing neighborhoods. ▪ Respond to the Negative Economic Impacts – This project strengthens neighborhoods and communities by creating safe and clean environments for citizens of Dayton to live, work, and play. ▪ Increases property values and makes the existing vacant and abandoned homes more desirable for possible re-development. ▪ Address the socio-economic disparities in low-income and minority populations resulting in those communities suffering a greater negative impact from COVID-19 o Serve the Hardest hit Communities - The City’s targeted areas are west, northwest and the tornado impacted east. These communities are designated as Qualified Census Tracts (QCT) by the United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). o Project benefits to minority populations that have been disproportionally impacted by COVID19 ▪ Establish a new equitable quality of life baseline for all HUD census track neighborhoods. Neighborhoods with low-moderate households face the biggest challenges for maintaining and improving homes. Therefore, equitable opportunities to grow financial equity from their home creates more inequities. Executing this project will provide the City with opportunities to make improvements for quality of life in neighborhoods that were already challenging prior to COVID and have been exacerbated by COVID impacts. Spending more time at home working, kids need to be entertained more at home, kids need to be able to play in yards safely and walk or ride bike to park safely. Respond to the Negative Economic Impacts – This project strengthens neighborhoods and communities by creating safe and clean environments for citizens of Dayton to live, work, and play. ▪ Eliminating and/or reducing trash debris and overgrown brush in neighborhoods are two major elements that can help strengthen Dayton neighborhoods. This project is a clear direction for strengthening neighborhood and communities. Cleaner neighborhoods present a more positive representation for higher quality of life within communities. Individuals who want to engage in negative activities more likely to avoid areas where neighboring residents are paying attention to their surroundings. o ROI - The ROI will be improvements to the appearance of abandoned properties which may make them more desirable for purchase and/or redevelopment. The benefit-cost impact will be increased productivity and efficiency of maintaining other work activities for vacant land maintenance such as mowing and trash removal. Removing overgrown brush will provide more visible surrounding views of the vacant/abandon properties for neighboring residents and the Police D
