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OUR CHALLENGE

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

Obviously the world needs to fight for sustainability, good stewardship of resources, equity, fairness and peaceful cooperation. Its tasks will be life-saving response, damage limitation, public safety and launching recovery. The penalty for not investing massively in it will be vast and disproportionate increases in losses.

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How Vacant and Abandoned Buildings Affect the Community

Center for Community Progress

Public safety costs : Higher violent and property crime rates and the associated costs to dispatch police and fire services to respond to these crimes are commonly associated with vacant and abandoned properties. For instance, Toledo, Ohio spent $3.8 million on fire dispatch.

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CRA Podcast Episodes

CRA Today

Public safety: Without a safe place to deposit their money, unbanked people are more likely to be victims of crime because they often carry large sums of cash with them or keep cash in their homes. For general inquiries about Natural Capital Investment Fund, contact Marten Jenkins at mjenkins@conservationfund.org or 681-252-4276.

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Crain's Chicago Business: Crain's Forum on Rebranding Chicago

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

and quality of place factors (arts, culture, historic preservation and heritage, education, public schools and libraries, urban design, etc.) I don't understand when elected officials don't appreciate how important getting public safety under control was to inward investment and population growth in the 2000s.