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Issues - Community life


Access to parks and open spaces

Arts

Celebrations

Changing demographics

Churches, mosques, temples and religious life

Civic engagement/ voting

Community centers

Community gardens

Crime

Crime in commercial centers

Crime in parks and open spaces

Edges of open spaces

Education (informal and adult)

Environmental justice

Faces of public buildings

Government agencies

Growing youth population

Homeless people

Housing

Housing tenure/ rental housing and home ownership

Immigrants

Importance of parks and open spaces

Landmarks

Libraries

News and activism

Parks and vehicles

Pedestrian safety/ pedestrian connections

Perceptions of public safety

Poverty

Private schools

Proposed (re)development

Public libraries

Public squares

Race, ethnicity, and diversity

Schools (contd.)

Schools/ public education (Entry 1 out of 2)

Schoolyards

Senior citizens

Signage

Vacant land

West Nile Virus

Youth Centers at Boston Housing Authority properties

Youth crime

Youth recreation