#1 Giving people with current or recent lived local experience a seat on the Community Homelessness Advisory Board
#2 Having the Record street shelter operate as a warming center and an emergency spot for women and families in addition to Our Place
#3 Keep Listening to Jon DeCarmine to make the Washoe County Cares Campus and safe camp better places, or better yet give the contracts to his teams to operate these
#4 Lining Truckee River paths with public trash cans, 24/7 toilets and showers
#5 Opening up more safe camps with pallet shelters
#6 Starting a safe parking program with multiple, safe locations
#7 Starting more programs to pay the unsheltered with day contracts paid in cash to create art in different parts of town and to clean up riverways and downtown areas
#8 Allowing granny pods in backyards
#9 Incentivizing micro housing initiatives and not of the luxury kind
#10 Ending sweetheart deals for big developers
#11 Fighting to save our alleys and public spaces
#12 Beginning a guerrilla garden uprising in all the empty lots
#13 Mapping public produce
#14 Getting campaign finance reform in local elections
#15 Incentivizing more local farms, backyard gardening projects and farmer’s markets.
#16 Shutting down parts of downtown for bikes and pedestrians on all weekends
#17 Adding bike parking areas as well as bike and scooter lanes across Reno
#18 Incentivizing the building and opening up of cheap hostels
#19 Helping existing motel owners improve conditions
#20 Funding, training and giving jobs to peer recovery specialists, social workers, drug counselors, mental health advocates and outreach specialists
#21 Removing hostile architecture and replacing it with green spaces and comfortable benches
#22 Going chair bombing to add comfortable street furniture
#23 Turning overpasses into wifi connected co-working community spaces
#24 Turning empty downtown storefronts into public art spaces
#25 Setting up tables in different parts of town for community conversations
Our Town Reno Listicle, December 2021