Infrastructure Around Canal Gardens

My contribution would be to improve the infrastructure around the Canal Gardens affordable housing area. It doesn’t need to be infrastructure the houses specifically, and especially if that makes the cost of the houses go up for those living there. I think that improving public infrastructure to give the Canal Gardens area things similar to the Ralston Country Club area would be a good idea. If a good enough job is done, the affluent people may even be willing to stay around that area.In addition, I would like to have Canal Gardens host more events. All of Ralston would be encouraged to visit the Canal Gardens area and this could allow for the residents of Ralston to meet some new faces. The feedback would most likely be met with higher scores in the Ward Vitality section because of the events, and higher scores in the Ward Neighborliness section because of the infrastructure.

Background: Ward 1 of Ralston is considered the worst place in Ralston to live according to most of its residents. The residents gave the Ward Vitality a low score of 2/4, “Not Much Happens”. They gave the Ward Neighborliness an even lower score of 1/4, “Isolated and Unavailable”. To put it simply, Ralston’s Ward 1 is a contact zone because cultures clash there in very asymmetrical relations of power. It is the place where the richest and poorest of Ralston residents are expected to coexist.Here’s an excerpt from the structural look at Ralston: “Economic disparity is most glaring in this sharply divided ward, and it’s most notable in the housing sector. An enclave of large homes rings the golf course, properties belonging to some of the wealthiest and most established families in the city. Across the bridge road, the Canal Gardens affordable housing development is home to city residents who earn less, on average, than residents in any other part of the city.” The ward has the Ralston Country Club, and an affluent old neighborhood stretches around the country club’s golf course. Across the bridge, there is the Canal Gardens affordable housing development. Residents that live here earn less, on average, than those living anywhere else in the city. If the resident score is so low, then one contribution to the Ralston community would have to do with improving Ward 1.