UNITED AGAINST VIOLENCE

Community leaders and urban planners are hoping to map out a clearer blueprint for the future of the Scott Street corridor.

A study released by the Third Ward Redevelopment Council suggested 86 percent of the population in the neighborhoods is black. Many live in deteriorated homes; a high concentration of the population is elderly. More than 30 percent of the residents live in poverty and 37 percent have an annual income of less than $15,000.

Scott impacts an area that has a large college student and resident population and is vital to the redevelopment of the entire Third Ward.

1. Street Organization Conflict Intervention

2. Establishing safe spaces for conflict resolution and training

3. Economic Development

4. Rehabilitating Street Organization Members 

5. Preventing Youth Involvement in Street Organization 

6. Promoting Peacemaking and Community Building Arts and Culture 

7. Enhancing Public Safety

A strategic plan to establish a community-based violence reduction pilot program covering the Scott Street corridor from I-45 to the north to Sims Bayou to the south 

The goal is a seventy-five percent (75%) reduction in gun related homicides, injuries, and robberies over the next four years along the Scott Street corridor