2025–26 · City-wide
Senior tax relief, BPS and affordable housing funding
Resident asks to spend funds on helping seniors pay property taxes, supporting BPS including Madison Park trade programs, and affordable housing for low- and middle-income people.
English title and summary written with AI from the resident's text.
The resident's idea, as submitted
The idea
Spend the funds on supporting seniors to pay their property taxes, BPS, especially the Madison Park trade school department, and affordable housing for all people, including those from low-income and middle-class backgrounds.
Details
- Cycle
- 2025–26
- Submitted
- July 3, 2025
- Neighborhood
- City-wide
- Portal category
- Education, Youth & Families
- How it was submitted
- Individual submission
- Submission language
- English
Themes grouped with AI from resident idea text.
The same need in other cycles
City-wide ideas in Affordable housing & rent stability from the other cycles, up to 3 from each.
2026–27 (60 matching)
- More affordable housing and apartmentsResident asks for more affordable housing and apartments to increase residents' spending power and reduce homelessness.2026–27City-wide
- Public senior and disabled housing with healthcareBuild government-owned and operated public housing for seniors and disabled people with adjacent subsidized healthcare, to reduce homelessness risk among those without care access.2026–27City-wide
- Vacancy tax on residential and commercial propertiesThe resident proposes a vacancy tax on empty residential and commercial properties so housing can be provided to people who need it, improving social equity.2026–27City-wideSubmitted in Korean
2024–25 (62 matching)
- Programs for affordable housingResident asks for programs that provide affordable housing, saying everyone deserves access to housing.2024–25City-wide
- Rent control plus pothole and rodent fixesResident asks for rent caps, pothole repair, rodent control, tax refunds and traffic relief, citing high cost of living.2024–25City-wide
- More deeply affordable housing in mixed-income buildingsResident asks the city to build more deeply affordable housing for extremely low-income households within mixed-income developments, helping workers live closer to jobs.2024–25City-wide