Pathways to Happiness are policies and programs for civil society servants and policy makers addressing communities with low scores in Safety & Trust

1. Pathways to Happiness
for communities with low sense of safety and trust

2. Pathways to Happiness are ways to increase
sense of
safety
&
trust

3. Community
scores are
the third
lowest overall
100= happiest

4. Let’s look at one aspect of community:
sense of safety and trust

5. On average, people
feel indifferently about
a sense of safety and
trust in strangers.
a score below 60 means we feel indifferently about our personal safely and sense of trust in strangers and others,

6. CourageousPolicies

7. Each street a public space
Encourage local small businesses
Ordinances to allow sidewalk café s, popup parks, food trucks…
Promote and encourage local artists
Easy permitting for street artists and musicians
Create meeting places, open streets to pedestrians, gardens and raingardens on existing streets
Retrofit and design streets to create public spaces
Encourage frequent fairs, farmers and craft markets and block parties
Farmers markets, fairs and block parties

8. Resources for transforming streets to public spaces
http://ww.charmeck.org/Planning/Rezoning/MobileFoodVendors/MobileFoodUnitOrdinances.pdf
Example food truck ordinances
http://www.pps.org/reference/ten-strategies-for-transforming-cities-through-placemaking-public-spaces/
Pointers and guide for creating public spaces
http://www.generalcode.com/codification/sample-legislation/sidewalk-cafes
Example sidewalk café ordinances
http://www.chlpi.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/12.18.13-Full-Food-Truck-Legal-Toolkit.pdf

9. More resources for transforming streets to public
spaces
http://www.michigan.gov/documents/mdch/Farmers_Markets_3-09_Public_Health_Law_Policy_303375_7.pdf
Laws and resources for farmer’s markets
http://www.sfbetterstreets.org/find-project-types/activating-street-space/block-parties-and-street-fairs/
Street fairs and block parties
https://www.aclu-de.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/WilmingtonBuskingOrdinance.pdf
Example permit for busking (musical street performer)
http://www.buskersadvocates.org/saaregulations.html
http://www.seattle.gov/police/nightout/

10. Sousveillance laws
City government encouragement of citizen recording
pass laws protecting citizen rights to record
sousveillance is citizen recordings of interactions with civic servants
police
postal workers
and other government workers
maintenance
government portal to collect sousveillance data
government use of sousveillance data

11. Resources for sousveillance
http://quigley.mab.ms/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Keeping-a-Close-Watch-The-Rise-of-Self-Surveillance-KD-version.pdf
Article on pros and cons of sousveillance
http://www.surveillance-and-society.org/articles1(3)/sousveillance.pdf
Article on uses of sousveillance and police body cams
http://www.surveillance-and-society.org/articles1(3)/sousveillance.pdf
White paper about sousveillance

12. What’s it going to take?

13. Get to know your neighbor
& write, call or meet your local elected official
with frequency
make a resolution to talk to your neighbor
and your neighborhood’s elected official in city government

14. Use your city’s public spaces
incorporate some aspect of public space into your routine
By yourself, meet friends or go with family

15. Other policies in the Pathways to Happiness tool series
Campaign finance reform
Guaranteed basic income
Media reform
Massive public transportation
Local food reliance
Village living (cities and rural)
Multi-use zoning
Public spaces
Political festivals
Participatory governance
Participatory budgeting
Anti-corruption policies
Transparency in government
Compassion training for police
Community-based monitoring
Sousveillance
Vote holiday
Vacation laws
Family leave laws
Sick leave laws
Flex time and job share laws
Telecommuting policies
Babies at work policies
Intergenerational care
Department of neighborhoods
Volunteer programs
Mindfulness practice in schools
Social justice awareness
raising
Mental health –priority
counseling

16. We envision a world where all beings can thrive.
Can you envision it too?
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