Love Your Block asks for participation in the survey “Repair needs in housing”

JACKSON, Tennessee. – Love Your Block – Jackson, TN is asking the community to participate in a survey on housing repair needs.

“Over the past few years, Love Your Block has assisted with numerous home repairs in our city,” said Abby Palmer, director of neighborhood services for the City of Jackson, Tennessee. “This survey will help us develop effective home repair assistance programs.”

Feedback from the survey will help the program identify the most urgent repairs and the barriers residents face in making those repairs.

You can find the survey at https://loveyourblock.jacksontn.gov and select the “Survey on the need for repairs in apartments” button.

About Love Your Block – Jackson, TN

Cities of Service’s Love Your Block program brings city leaders and residents together to build stronger neighborhoods, one block at a time. Typically, cities implementing Love Your Block invite citizen groups to identify priority projects and award mini-grants to support neighborhood-focused solutions the community can implement.

From turning vacant lots into community gardens to helping elderly neighbors make home repairs to avoid fines and grow old safely in their own homes, residents love their blocks and make them and their cities better places to live.

The benefits of Love Your Block extend far beyond physical improvements. A 2021 study by the Urban Institute found that social networks created by deep resident engagement with City Hall can spur neighborhood-level improvements in addition to larger, sustainable improvements in municipal practices and policies. Love Your Block activates and builds social networks between residents, their neighbors, and City Hall.

This citizen engagement at City Hall can lead to collective efficacy that is often bidirectional: City officials can leverage neighborhood social capital in service of the mayor’s goals, and citizens can benefit from greater responsiveness of officials to address their needs and priorities. In other words, Love Your Block is a starting point for cities to more meaningfully engage their citizens and improve communities in holistic and sustainable ways.

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