High Point exists in two worlds. The City Council often focuses too much of its attention on revitalizing infrastructure, without fully appreciating how its priorities affect citizens of our core city, specifically with respect to housing, code enforcement, food scarcity, and jobs.

Example #1: Job growth is occurring in our north but, without a car, citizens in our core city have no way to get to a job and so remain cut off from opportunities to improve their economic well-being. The NAACP supports an overhaul of public transportation schedules to allow citizens to get to their jobs throughout the day, with routes rationalized such that not every bus has to originate from or return to the central terminal. The NAACP supports an increase in funding to support this overhaul, including funding to recruit and retain bus drivers at competitive salaries.

Example #2: Food scarcity can be addressed by establishing food stores in the core city, but subsidies and real estate tax breaks will often be needed to allow these stores to reach profitability. The NAACP supports the use of such subsidies and tax breaks. The NAACP also supports the appointment of a Minority Affairs Coordinator who will have responsibility and authority to oversee and examine how City policies and actions affect our most vulnerable citizens with respect to the above.