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Southeast Quality of Life <br />Strategic Neighborhood Action Plan <br />Those WWII era residents who remain in the neighborhood are now senior <br />citizens lacking the income, energy, and skills they once exhibited. New <br />residents are more likely to be those who can not compete for more upscale <br />locations, rather than those who prefer and choose a central city neighborhood. <br />On the other hand, there are many residents of the Southeast Neighborhood <br />who have in fact chosen it, because of its multicultural diversity and <br />convenience. This should not be overlooked as a positive signal to others. <br />Recent major influences on the neighborhood have come as a result of definitive <br />governmental and institutional policies and actions. They are many: <br />- Acquisition, vacation, and demolition of obsolete residences by the <br />agencies of South Bend; <br />- the planned Parkview Juvenile Center; <br />- the planned Indiana Vocational Technical Institute; <br />- the planned relocation of the County's Boys and Girls Club and Family <br />Children's Center; <br />- the South Bend Heritage affordable housing project; <br />- the proposed Park District sports fields; <br />- the proposed expansion of Riley High School; <br />- City of South Bend code enforcement program; <br />- other? <br />The result of many of these policies has been the conversion of over 100 acres <br />22 % of the neighborhood, of land north of Broadway from residential to <br />planned non-residential use, the legacy of vacant houses and lots, the <br />anticipated demolition/relocation of approximately 30 homes for high school <br />expansion, and the general de -stabilizing concern with unknown change which <br />resides within neighborhood residents. On the other hand, these policies <br />collectively express a public reinvestment commitment to the future of the <br />Southeast neighborhood opportunities for coordinated revitalization efforts are <br />not inconsistent with home ownership and family values which are of high <br />priority to local residents and religious institutions. <br />Construction of the Parkview Juvenile Center, Boys' and Girls' Club, and SBH <br />affordable housing project (54-56 rental units in 28 buildings) is scheduled to <br />begin in the foreseeable future. Construction of the Technical Institute and <br />sports fields is unscheduled and uncertain, leaving substantial areas of vacant <br />land in limbo. <br />Other external factors include alleged redlining by financial institutions. Impacts <br />of commercial corridors related to Sample and Michigan Streets have also been <br />identified as influencing existing conditions within the neighborhood. These <br />8 <br />