Report title: (untitled) Report ID: 08cd22a6b4d55987743c Date: 10/30/2017 Score: 37% #1 100% similar (exact match) “Of all the issues confronting city government, which single issue is most important to you and why" https://d3n8a8 pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/durhampa/pages/930/attachments/original/150‘ middleton-ward2-questionnaire.pdf?1501943489 «9 Way Durham, NC, 27703 Middleton4durham@ gmail.com 919-597-8953 Government and the Public Good 1. Of all the issues confronting city government, which single issue is most important to you and why? What would you do about it if elected? The belief that all citizens stand equal in the eyes of th... #2 100% similar (exact match) "What would you do about it if elected" https://d3n8a8 pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/durhampa/pages/930/attachments/original/150 1 middleton-ward2-questionnaire.pdf?1501943489 ..ue is most important to you and why? What would you do about it if elected? The belief that all citizens stand e... #3 100% similar (exact match)"What can the city do to lift the wages of the lowest paid workers in Durham and reduce growing income inequality in our community" https://d3n8a8 pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/durhampa/pages/930/attachments/original/150: middleton-ward2-questionnaire.pdf?1501943489 ..€ review process for promotion within the police department. mailto:Middleton4durham@ gmail.com 2 2. What can the city do to lift the wages of the lowest paid workers in Durham and reduce growing income inequality in our community? Where in our community do you see opportunities for city government to address the racial wealth ga... #4 100% similar (exact match) "Where in our community do you see opportunities for city government to address the racial wealth gap" httos://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/durhampa/pages/930/attachments/original/1501 middleton-ward2-questionnaire.pdf?1501943489 ..€ wages of the lowest paid workers in Durham and reduce growing income inequality in our community? Where in our community do you see opportunities for city government to address the racial wealth gap? As a member of the Durham City Council | will use my mini bully pulpit to encourage our lowest paid... #5 100% similar (exact match) "Describe your interest in and commitment to public amenities such as playing fields, open space, street trees, traffic calming, and walking and biking facilities"https://d3n8a8 pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/durhampa/pages/930/attachments/original/1501 middleton-ward2-questionnaire.pdf?1501943489 wn screened and trained, This is a concept | have seen in action through my work with Durham CAN. 3. Describe your interest in and commitment to public amenities such as playing fields, open space, street trees, traffic calming, and walking and biking facilities. Are you willing to raise property taxes to provide for and maintain these amenities? Are public ame. #6 100% similar (exact match) "Are you willing to raise property taxes to provide for and maintain these amenities" https://d3n8a8 pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/durhampa/pages/930/attachments/original/150 1 middleton-ward2-questionnaire.pdf?1501943489 wlds, open space, street trees, traffic calming, and walking and biking facilities. Are you willing to raise property taxes to provide for and maintain these amenities? Are public amenities allocated to neighborhoods of different wealth and income lev... #7 100% si lar (exact match) "Are public amenities allocated to neighborhoods of different wealth and income levels equitably" https://d3n8a8 pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/durhampa/pages/930/attachments/original/150 1 middleton-ward2-questionnaire.pdf?1501943489 ..cilities, Are you willing to raise property taxes to provide for and maintain these amenities? Are public amenities allocated to neighborhoods of different wealth and income levels equitably? Please explain and cite examples. 3 As a product of an American inner city | experienced first...#8 100% similar (exact match) "How should the city measure the benefits and costs of incentives to promote development especially as those benefits and costs affect low- income residents" https://d3n8a8 pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/durhampa/pages/930/attachments/original/150 1 middleton-ward2-questionnaire.pdf?1501943489 ..election outcome is the condition of the playing field at the Oxford Manor housing development. 4. How should the city measure the benefits and costs of incentives to promote development especially as those benefits and costs affect low-income residents of Durham? How would you use these measurements when deciding to vote for or against a proposed ince... #9 100% similar (exact match) "How would you use these measurements when deciding to vote for or against a proposed incentive" https://d3n8a8 pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/durhampa/pages/930/attachments/original/150 middleton-ward2-questionnaire.pdf?1501943489 ..ote development especially as those benefits and costs affect low-income residents of Durham? How would you use these measurements when deciding to vote for or against a proposed incentive? Over the years | have participated in literally hundreds of panels and forums on strategies t... #10 100% similar (exact match)"What actions should the city take to expand job creation and job quality" https://d3n8a8 pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/durhampa/pages/930/attachments/original/150 middleton-ward2-questionnaire.pdf?1501943489 ..rated commitment to affordable housing on the part of the developer? 5. What actions should the city take to expand job creation and job quality? In your answer, please comment on the city?s potential involvement ine.. #11 100% similar (exact match) "In your answer, please comment on the city’s potential involvement in entrepreneurship, worker-owned cooperatives, and union organizing" https://d3n8a8 pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/durhampa/pages/930/attachments/original/150 1 middleton-ward2-questionnaire.pdf?1501943489 art of the developer? 5. What actions should the city take to expand job creation and job quality? In your answer, please comment on the city?s potential involvement in entrepreneurship, worker-owned cooperatives, and union organizing. Job creation by definition implies a commitment to sensible and principled development. If elected... #12 62% similar "This model has proven to be an effective tool for creating and maintaining sustainable, dignified jobs; generating wealth; improving the quality of life of workers; and promoting community and local economic development in low income communities" httpy/institute.coop/benefits-worker-cooperatives..€ practices. Workers own the majority of the equity in the business, and control the voting shares. The model has proven to be an effective tool for creating and maintaining sustainable, dignified jobs; generating wealth; improving the quality of life of workers; and promoting community and local economic development, particularly for people who lack access to business ownership or even sustainable work options. According to United for a Fair Economy: “One of the main barriers to business ownership for people of color is access to start-up capital... [Worker cooperatives make] business o... #13 100% similar (exact match) "What does “gentrification” mean to you" httos://robbfluet.org/the-issues/20 17/7/24/housing-city-planning-and- neighborhoods Sing, City Planning and Neighborhoods What does “gentrification” mean to you? What, if anything, should be done abo... #14 100% similar (exact match) "What, if anything, should be done about it" https://robbfluet.org/the-issues/20 17/7/24/housin: -planning-and- neighborhoods 8 What does “gentrification” mean to you? What, if anything, should be done about it? How, if at all, is the issue of gentrific... #15 100% similar (exact match)"How, if at all, is the issue of gentrification implicated in the Planning Department's current review of zoning in East Durham, the proposed creation of an Alston Avenue Design District, and the redevelopment of the former Fayette Place property" https://robbfluet.org/the-issues/20 17/7/24/housing-city-planning-and- neighborhoods ..d Neighborhoods What does “gentrification” mean to you? What, if anything, should be done about it? How, if at all, is the issue of gentrification implicated in the Planning Department's current review of zoning in East Durham, the proposed creation of an Alston Avenue Design District, and the redevelopment of the former Fayette Place property? Gentrification is a double edged sword. Gentrification can lead to a flood of private dollars for i... #16 68% similar "Gentrification is sometimes referred to as revitalization and reinvestment causing a relatively sharp increase in rents and home values in low-and moderate income neighborhoods resulting in isplacement of residents" httos://shelterforce.ora/20 14/05/23/7_policies_that_could_prevent_gentrification, ..investment, an increase in incomes, rising home prices or rents, a different occupational mix, higher educational level and/or a new race/ethnicity mix. | use gentrification to refer to revitalization and reinvestment causing a relatively sharp increase in rents and home values in low- and moderate-income urban neighborhoods resulting in actual or imminent displacement of residents. To the extent that residents can reap the benefits of rising home values, educational levels and in...#17 85% similar "Prohibit large-scale luxury development in at risk neighborhoods (Fayette Place) 3" https://shelterforce.org/20 14/05/23/7_policies_that_could_prevent_gentrification/ at-risk areas should be rewarded for keeping rents affordable. Policy 4: Prohibit large-scale luxury development in at-risk neighborhoods. The single biggest cause of displacement is large-scale, high-cost housing development. B.. #18 92% similar “Some community development advocates propose that the federal government create a new type of housing voucher,(stabilization voucher) to be awarded to long-time residents of low-income communities to help them stay when gentrification poses a risk" https://shelterforce.ora/20 14/05/23/7_policies_that_could_prevent_gentrification, Roxbury, and forbid market-rate, large-scale development. Policy 5: Create a stabilization voucher. Some community development advocates propose that the federal government create a new type of housing voucher, to be awarded to long-time residents of low-income communities to help them stay when gentrification poses a risk. | call this a stabilization voucher, because it retains low-income residents to help stabilize comm... #19 93% similar "It could retain low-income residents to help stabilize communities by avoiding displacement"httos://shelterforce.ora/20 14/05/23/7_policies_that_could_prevent_gentrification, .m stay when gentrification poses a risk. | call this a stabilization voucher, because it retains low-income residents to help stabilize communities by avoiding displacement. Policy 6: Change the fair housing rules. In order to provide federal resources dispro... #20 100% similar (exact match) "What should the city seek to accomplish through its power to stimulate and regulate growth" https://robbfluet.org/the-issues/20 17/7/24/housing-city-planning-and- neighborhoods f how to help the citizens, and how we can fight back against the gentrification crisis. What should the city seek to accomplish through its power to stimulate and regulate growth? What principles and considerations will guide your decisions in zoning cases and other de... #21 100% similar (exact match) "What principles and considerations will guide your decisions in zoning cases and other development issues" https://robbfluet.org/the-issues/20 17/7/24/housing-city-planning-and- neighborhoods ..crisis. What should the city seek to accomplish through its power to stimulate and regulate growth? What principles and considerations will guide your decisions in zoning cases and other development issues? lllustrate your answer with a recent controversial zoning case. Did the city decide the case correc...#22 100% similar (exact match) "Illustrate your answer with a recent controversial zoning case" httos://robbfluet.org/the-issues/2017/7/24/housina-city-planning-and- neighborhoods ..your decisions in zoning cases and other development issues? Illustrate your answer with a recent controversial zoning case. Did the city decide the case correctly? | think it is the res... #23 100% similar (exact match) "Did the city decide the case correctly" httos://robbfluet.org/the-issues/20 17/7/24/housing-city-planning-and- neighborhoods ..h a recent controversial zoning case. 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