How will valley cityhood benefit disadvantaged communities?
As a city grows larger, disadvantaged communities are the first to lose their voice and influence. These communities have the most to benefit from Valley Cityhood. “Freed from centralized bureaucracies, these neighborhoods, including many of the older, poorer ones would prosper.” writes the Case Director at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Currently these areas not only have to compete with other Valley Communities, but with the rest of Los Angeles for much needed resources and services. If the Valley were to become a separate city, these communities would have a larger voice in a smaller city and they would make their own decisions about local issues, decisions currently being made by bureaucrats from afar.
