Below are the ideas that Humboldt neighbors had for strengthening community.


Youth activities
1. Youth activities: reverse gang involvement
2. More positive influence for youth (we don’t have enough)
3. Focus on the youth: programs, community involvement, career counseling, strengthen schools, role models
4. More events for children, specific groups/classes, for example dance, art, workshops
5. A place where kids could go and have dances and services
6. A service for teenagers so they could get jobs and out of gangs
7. Academic support & childcare for youth

Education
1. Get the school district to “invite” the neighborhood to be involved in Jefferson H.S.
2. Humboldt Elementary
3. Businesses and parents and schools partner to create schools full of energy – a place where kids and community want to be
4. Highlight local students (Humboldt, Jefferson H.S…) to strengthen all residents ties to local schools
5. More training for disabilities for people
6. Better and safer schools
7. Making Jefferson High School a closed campus
8. The school board involved with community, a continued effort to keep lines open to all
9. Improved schools
10. Community scholarships – No child left behind
11. Having neighborhood students attend neighborhood schools, elementary, middle and high school
12. Strengthen Jefferson
13. The schools
14. Mentorship for all kids

Events
1. More events: reverse drug use neighborhood
2. Block party – get to know neighbors
3. Community sales/fund raising
4. Monthly outings/ activities for the community
5. Move Juneteenth celebration to Jefferson H.S.
6. Bring MLK Jr. birthday celebration back to Jefferson H.S.
7. Move Good in the Hood to Jefferson H.S.
8. Creating opportunities for everyone to meet
9. An annual parade from Greely to 33rd on Killingsworth, MLK Day?
10. Neighborhood gatherings and block parties
11. Summer activities / Garage sale
12. Fund raising / Charity works
13. Neighborhood potlucks
14. Have neighborhood meetings
15. Eventos comunitarios (community events)
16. Torneos Deportivos (Para ninos) Sports teams (for kids)
17. Neighborhood events
18. Arbor day?
19. Days in the park – peninsula?
20. ‘Farmers’ market at PCC parking lot – weekends? Once a month?
21. Community meetings
22. Events
23. Children’s sports year round
24. Music music and more music (jamns and day concerts)
25. Art showings
26. Craft shows, murals, public art
27. Dare I suggest mural painting?
28. Summer block parties
29. Street fair or public events (music)
30. Block parties
31. More block parties / community events
32. Movie nights
33. Knowing each other – have block parties
34. Monthly neighborhood / block meetings
35. Planning community events
36. Haven’t a clue what it is, but events that truly interest all of the major ethnic groups in Humboldt
37. Local artist art shows and sales
38. Music programs

Services
1. Better food stamps office that can serve the hungry in neighborhood
2. Where can street people go?
3. Low cost or free programs
4. More amenities in the neighborhood with continued improvement to storefronts

Business/Jobs
1. New local businesses
2. Child care co-ops
3. Jobs, jobs, jobs
4. Living wage and health benefits and a future
5. Circulate information about local businesses; encourage more local advertising by local businesses
6. Keep out national corporations, keep business local
7. Jobs!!
8. A thrift store
9. Supporting minority-owned businesses (locating in the neighborhood)
10. Encourage businesses that target non-white customers
11. Business development
12. Employment
13. White people supporting minority-owned businesses. What can we do to improve that relationship?
14. Hiring more people of color in the new businesses that open in our area.
15. Target more loans to people of color to open business in the area where they live
16. Employment

Getting Together
1. Local forum where current issues, like police abuse, crime, gay marriage, childcare, can be discussed and debated
2. Community related information sharing
3. Communication between neighbors and neighborhoods
4. Trying to bring together the very different sides of the neighborhood to discuss joint concerns
5. Programs to get interaction amongst diverse segments of community
6. Regular meetings of close neighbors (i.e. same street or block) to get to know and trust each other and to focus on strategies to address mutual concerns such as security and reducing crime
7. Creating trust among residents of different races, economic status
8. Working as a team on ideas to improve community
9. Visiting one another. I would begin first at home
10. Get to know your neighbor
11. Neighborhood get to know one another
12. Get people out of their cars. Walking by neighbors’ houses, passing neighbors on the street
13. Getting to know your neighbors
14. Friendly neighbors
15. Meeting more African American families (we’re white); it’s been harder to meet people than expected
16. Meet your neighbor events – possibly going door to door
17. Getting to know each other
18. Say hello to everyone you see
19. Cross-cultural trust and communication
20. Learn what Community means

Sharing Resources
1. More communal living, shared tools, childcare exchanges, meal exchanges, etc.
2. Finding out what neighbors need help with (elderly, kids, food, etc.) so that we can help our own
3. Sharing
4. Barter and trade services network
5. Resource mapping
6. Block by block phone trees with map
7. Maybe a barter system for neighbors?
8. Free food distribution program
9. Better information on neighborhood events
10. A community kiosk/bulletin board
11. Getting information about resources to the people
12. Under resources/Emergency fund
13. Transportation, identify language interpreters
14. Help with someone sick in their home, do light house cleaning
15. Transportation pool – for groceries, Drs. Appointments, etc., Progresses to care and carefulness
16. The value in community sharing
17. Directory of all Community Services
18. Support for others in community

Sharing Skills & Knowledge
1. Skill shares / historical and cultural
2. Sewing/Quilting Clubs or Guilds
3. Young Eagles speakers programs
4. Share your Faith / Bible Studies / Activities, churches

Safety/Reduce Crime
1. Stop criminal activity
2. Community policing: gangs, drugs, violence
3. Public safety: speeding cars, guns
4. Neighborhood watch / crime prevention
5. Crime prevention
6. Drugs + other addictions
7. Get to know who the police are
8. Police walking the beat
9. Decrease crime/drugs
10. Seguridad (Security)
11. Addressing police brutality and harassment of residents
12. Neighborhood watch
13. Better communication with law enforcement
14. Security in the streets
15. Neighborhood watch program
16. Safety – ‘eyes’ on the street and neighborhood watches
17. More street lights for safe walking at night to neighborhood events
18. Tighter regulation on rental units; they seem to be havens to drug activity
19. Crime – more neighborhood watch
20. Neighborhood watch to prevent crime
21. Keeping neighborhood safe
22. Report all suspicious activities to police
23. No gang activity
24. No prostitution
25. People on drugs
26. Car break-ins
27. Safety
28. Less cops
29. A neighborhood watch
30. Neighborhood safety (2)
31. Community policing / Neighborhood watch
32. Crime prevention and elimination

Neighborhood Pride (Gardening/Public Spaces)
1. Parks
2. Community development (community design) projects
3. More planned community gardens
4. Making streetscapes safer and more attractive
5. More green spaces
6. Community gardens / dinners
7. Common spaces
8. Extremely local improvement committees – the whole Triangle ideas is a great start
9. Community garden
10. Get land adjacent to “triangle” for larger public greenspace
11. Mississippi / Albina Triangle
12. Cullen’s Corner at Alberta and Albina
13. Improve little parks on Prescott, Mississippi, Albina; Maybe a water fountain, restroom, eating tables

Clean Up
1. Community pride: litter, vandalism, graffiti
2. Neighborhood cleanup/planting
3. Keeping clean
4. Cleaning up neighborhood/curb appeal
5. Remove the garbage and recycling cans off the streets. Keep streets clean.
6. Littering!
7. Pride in neighborhoods with renters
8. Community clean up / SOLV
9. Neighborhood improvement
10. More effective street cleaning
11. Cleaning sidewalks
12. Old car and truck in yard for years
13. Empty houses on block
14. Garbage cans on street
15. Cleaning up the neighborhood (litter clean-up events)
16. Clean streets, waste, leaves
17. Keeping neighborhood clean
18. Remove old cars and oil spills
19. Keeping the neighborhood beautiful and litter free
20. Pick up garbage off of street and sidewalks
21. Community clean-up (litter, graffiti)

Respect
1. Respect from the new-comers to those of us who have been in the community before property values were high
2. Dog owners being responsible and picking up their animal droppings
3. Religious tolerance, education/diversity

Healthcare
1. Mental health issues
2. Alternative healthcare clinic / acupuncture, naturopathy
3. Drug treatment / prostitution alternative programs (treated with acupuncture at healthcare clinic, for example)
4. Local facilities that treat addictions as illnesses, not crimes
5. Lectures on the types of healthcare available in the neighborhood
6. More and better mental health programs. Community individual care involvement

Actions/Practices
1. United front organizing to stop war and put resources into jobs, education, social services and healthcare
2. Using their neighborhood
3. Turning off the T.V.
4. Staying out of the car 5. Identify stages on change WITHIN individuals
6. Identify those who will act now
7. Identify strengths in reluctant people
8. [Focus on overcoming] Racism/fear

Leadership
1. Neighborhood sponsor / Directional manager

Ideas
1. Living machine waste water treatment facility (like in one in Astoria); fishing in the “living machine ponds"
2. Neighborhood history
3. More lights on Mississippi from Prescott to Blandena
4. Its own waste water treatment facility

Traffic Control
1. Open street on Williams/Killingsworth to thru traffic; Re-route traffic back on Williams at Killingsworth
2. Ease congestion on Killingsworth
3. Parking for people who live near PCC. I can’t park in front of m own house at night when there are classes.
4. Slower speed limits on major roads – encourage pedestrian activity and central gathering spots, i.e. City Repair models
5. Too many bikes with no lights on at night

Housing Development
1. Rent control
2. Community control of neighborhood development
3. Affordable housing / address gentrification
4. Effort to help all Humboldt citizens to benefit from neighborhood renewal
5. Focus on gentrification and its consequences