Taking Back Our Neighbourhoods

In the face of staggering poverty rates in parts of the community. The report calls for sustained and targeted overinvestment in neighbourhoods like West Windsor to address these systemic issues. Recommendations include implementing a vacant building registry to combat blight, establishing strategically located community hubs to centralize services, creating neighbourhood-level economic development incentives, forming multi-stakeholder community action tables, and developing a regional transit plan to improve mobility and access to opportunity. The authors stress that reversing decades of disinvestment will require long-term commitment from all sectors—municipalities, non-profits, businesses, and residents—working together to strengthen neighbourhood stability and quality of life.