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Guiding Principles

Liveable City is guided by its mission to safeguard the long-term social, environmental, and economic well being of all Austinites. To this end, we believe that:

  • An educated and informed citizenry is essential to improving our community’s quality of life.
  • Individual community issues are best addressed as part of a complex whole, acknowledging the critical relationships between such issues as affordable housing, education, transportation, the environment and the economy.
  • Every Austin resident deserves access to an affordable home, a good education, a decent job, accessible transportation, adequate health care and other basic elements that comprise a livable community.

Liveable City is working to develop a specific set of principles for each of its priority issues to guide and evaluate proposed policies or programs. Please see our Transportation Principles and check back to this page for updates.