Fund paid youth fellows who document progress with short videos and publish them daily, keeping pressure on agencies to move from listening sessions to bulldozers.

Require anthropologists or cultural organizers on every capital project so displacement risks and community rituals are logged before blueprints are finalized.

Use open-source capital stack trackers where residents tag invoices, comment on delays, and propose course corrections in real time.

Tie procurement to heat and flood exposure maps so contractors can only invoice for projects that overlap with the city’s highest-risk census tracts.

Budget for local stewardship clinics that pay residents to maintain bioswales or cooling corridors so dollars cycle in the neighborhood for years.