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You live in a nice house with a nice yard. The kids play with the neighbors' kids. You can walk to the grocery store and church. Daycare and school are within five minutes. There are fewer cars on the road because everything is nearby, in town. And the air is cleaner because of it. People walk, take the bus, or ride bikes on the bike path, through the wooded open space that surrounds the neighborhood. You can afford to keep your home and everyone - including the young man working at the local market - can afford to live close by. His is a nice apartment right above the store, on Main Street. This is a real community, where neighbors meet, people work, children play. This is KeepSpace.
As the founding partner in this exciting new initiative, Rhode Island Housing is bringing together advocates for jobs, the environment, safe homes and the many components that are essential to a good, safe, healthy community to create KeepSpace Communities: where neighbors meet, people work, children play. Instead of working independently of each other to create small pockets of success in each area, the partners will work TOGETHER to create neighborhoods where a healthy environment is as valued as safe homes and good jobs. By attempting to reuse existing developed land that has been underutilized or abandoned, KeepSpace communities will help preserve a precious Rhode Island commodity: open space. Creative partnerships will result in thriving neighborhoods with good-paying jobs, and homes that are beautiful, convenient and affordable. Schools, services, church and cultural centers would all be close-by. Close proximity, coupled with conveniences like bike paths and public transit will help minimize traffic and air pollution. And green building practices will protect and reuse natural resources. KeepSpace Communities are a bold step to ensure a safe, healthy future for our children and our children's children. [more] |
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