Want my vote? Keep Downtown alive
Downtown is enjoying important momentum. We can’t afford to let that stop.
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To fight food deserts, Lafayette invests in corner stores
A new initiative will partner with nearly three dozen corner stores to provide forgivable loans for produce and prepared meal equipment and a dollar-to-dollar match for customers.
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Would you move to Lafayette for $10,000?
Some communities are paying folks to relocate. It’s a novel way to win workers and potentially win back expats. Would it work here?
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Hey Lafayette expats! Where y’at?
Lafayette is spending a lot of time thinking about people like you, and especially why you aren’t here. Talk to us!
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‘Greaux native’ movement sprouts in Lafayette
Native plant gardens are restoring health to local ecosystems — and neighborhoods, too.
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Lafayette has unlocked hundreds of adjudicated properties. But hundreds more remain.
Lafayette’s efforts to deal with adjudicated properties have seen slow but steady progress since adjudications peaked at 1,560 properties in July 2019. In the years since, LCG has brought hundreds of properties back into commerce.
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Maybe Lafayette isn’t so cheap?
Lafayette’s median-cost ratio — how much of their income renters spend on housing — is roughly the same as Houston’s and higher than Austin’s.
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Is the job you want in Lafayette?
Finding a job that’s right for them is a key reason young people leave Lafayette. What’s your experience?
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Want young voters to stay? Try listening to them
Are Lafayette’s leaders listening? Young voters say their concerns are falling on deaf ears.
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Lafayette is running out of starter homes
With an aging stock of existing homes, and effectively no new construction below $200,000, Lafayette’s first-time homebuyers are being shut out of the market.
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Listen: How does Lafayette work, anyway?
Have you ever wondered how our consolidated government actually works? In our new podcast miniseries, Lafayette 101, we give you the civics lesson you never knew you needed.
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Conversation: Lafayette’s a 10 but…
Whether we’ve known it all our lives, were college sweethearts or got with it by pure happenstance, we really do love it.
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