—Thoughts and scribbles.
This post was originally published on Innovate Syracuse on August 31, 2018.
[VIDEO] In July, the Innovation Team hosted three community ideation sessions around Housing Stability. During these sessions, the team spoke with residents about their housing stability challenges in Syracuse and what they thought could be done to start to address them…
Read MoreThis post was originally published on Innovate Syracuse on July 13, 2018.
[VIDEO] On June 15th, the City of Syracuse Division of Code Enforcement hosted Healthy Housing 101, an event held to teach local residents and service providers how to spot code violations in homes. Our code inspectors reviewed what to look for in homes--mold, infestations, unsafe staircases--as well as who citizens can contact when they have an issue getting problems fixed.
Read MoreThis 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…
Read MoreThis 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…
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