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Opportunity and Mobility

Lakewood’s Comprehensive Plan supports Opportunity by ensuring all residents have access to essential resources, including affordable housing, healthcare, education, and economic opportunities to achieve economic and social mobility.

The Plan’s policies, programs, and practices:

  • Promote housing as a basic need to ensure housing stability.
  • Expand housing options and services for residents to ensure residents are supported and have access to safe, accessible, and affordable housing.
  • Promote access to healthy food and healthcare services for all residents.
  • Foster a strong economy that offers affordable goods and services, living wages, education, and workforce training.
  • Provides accessible transportation options that supports all residents.

What does Opportunity and Mobility mean? Opportunity and Mobility is what allows a community and its residents to achieve social and economic mobility- through the environmental, circumstantial, and programmatic factors that allow residents to develop skills, secure and maintain a job, start a business, find housing, travel between destinations, access healthcare services, and much more.