Access to Education | Access to Products & Services |
Access to Transportation | Addiction |
Affordable Housing | Age Discrimination |
Air Quality | Bullying |
Capital Flight | Child Welfare |
Childcare | Civic Engagement |
Civility | Consumer Education |
Cost of Living | Crime |
Cultural Opportunities | Destruction of Ecosystems |
Disability Rights | Disasters |
Discrimination | Disease |
Dispute Resolution | Domestic Violence |
Economic Freedoms | Economic Problems |
Emergency Services | Energy Infrastructure |
Financial Security | Fire Safety |
Food Security | Freedom of Association |
Freedom of Movement | Freedom of Religion |
Gender Discrimination | Green Space |
Happiness | Health & Fitness |
Healthcare | Homelessness |
Housing Quality | Human Rights |
Hunger & Nutrition | Infrastructure Decay |
Lack of Opportunity | Land Degradation |
Legal Rights | Loneliness & Isolation |
Marketable Skills (job market) | Mental Health |
Mismanagement of Resources | Modern Slavery |
Noise | Obesity |
Overcrowding | Overpolicing |
Places for Recreation | Places to Play |
Policing | Political Rights |
Population Decline | Positive Role Models |
Poverty | Preservation of Cultural Heritage |
Privacy Rights | Public Space |
Racism | Safety |
Sanitation & Hygiene | School Dropout Rate |
School Quality | Security |
Service Disruptions (e.g. late trains) | Services for the Elderly |
Small Business Failures | Social Opportunities |
Social Stability | Social Support (i.e. people to turn to with a problem) |
Socialization | Substance Abuse |
Technology Infrastructure | Traffic Jams |
Transportation Safety | Unemployment |
Voter Turnout | Wages |
Walkability | Waste Management |
Water Infrastructure | Water Pollution |
Water Security | Working Conditions |
Youth Activities | Youth Unemployment |
Solutions
Solutions to community problems have two major flavors: political action and direct action. Political action is the process of pushing governments and firms to address a problem. For example, pushing state government to help phase out air pollution in a city. Direct action is the process of directly working to solve a problem as a community. For example, a neighborhood that repurposes a roadway as green infrastructure with capacities such as cycling paths, play areas, green space and food production. Political action generally involves the production of creative tension. Direct action benefits from entrepreneurial approaches such as design thinking, systems thinking, worse is better and fail well.Summary
Community problems are social issues at the level of a place such as a city, neighborhood or rural area.
