civic design — Blog — Samantha Jo Linnett

Bringing Stability to Renters in Syracuse: Connecting Residents to Resources

This post is the third in a series of three about the Innovation Team’s housing stability initiatives. To read the first two posts, go here.

A little over a year ago, we asked for your input on what our next priority area should be. After six weeks of public engagement, nearly 900 votes from residents, and input from the Common Council, the Mayor chose Housing Stability as our next challenge to tackle. Last month, the City of Syracuse launched 11 new housing stability initiatives to improve housing and reduce transiency for our residents…

Samantha LinnettJune 20, 2019housing, housing stability, housing policy, civic innovation, civic design, public affairsComment

Bringing Stability to Renters in Syracuse: Reducing Evictions

This post is the second in a series of three about the Innovation Team’s housing stability initiatives. To read the first post, go here.

A little over a year ago, we asked for your input on what our next priority area should be. After six weeks of public engagement, nearly 900 votes from residents, and input from the Common Council, the Mayor chose Housing Stability as our next challenge to tackle. Last month, the City of Syracuse launched 11 new housing stability initiatives to improve housing and reduce transiency for our residents…

Samantha LinnettJune 20, 2019housing, housing stability, evictions, housing policy, civic innovation, civic design, public affairsComment

Bringing Stability To Renters In Syracuse: Improving Housing Quality

This post is the first in a series of three about the Innovation Team’s housing stability initiatives.

A little over a year ago, we asked for your input on what our next priority area should be. After six weeks of public engagement, nearly 900 votes from residents, and input from the Common Council, the Mayor chose Housing Stability as our next challenge to tackle. Last month, the City of Syracuse launched 11 new housing stability initiatives to improve housing and reduce transiency for our residents…

Samantha LinnettJune 20, 2019housing, housing stability, housing policy, civic innovation, civic design, public affairsComment

Voting is Open!

This post was originally published on Innovate Syracuse on February 1, 2018.

Voting for our next priority area is officially open! After an initial round of submitting ideas, six issues emerged as the most popular choices, from which we are now asking residents to vote on their top picks using a new online platform to builds community engagement…

Samantha LinnettNovember 26, 2018local government, innovation, public engagement, civic design, civic innovationComment

Calling All Ideas

This post was originally published on Innovate Syracuse on September 27, 2017.

We’ve posted before about how a human-centered design approach is integral to our research process, but it’s also a big part of our ideation and initiative development. Similar to how we need to work with residents who interact with systems and challenges every day to fully understand them, we need input from residents to know exactly what ideas will work most effectively to help them…

Samantha LinnettNovember 26, 2018local government, public engagement, human centered design, civic design, civic innovationComment