Community Challenges

Community Challenges

19 continues to present challenges all over the hoosier state.

In fact, a recent survey revealed the top three challenges for many indiana communities.

They include... finding affordable housing... internet connectivity..

And drug abuse!

Tonight..

News 10's porsha williams is live in our newsroom.

She spoke with the author of the survey to learn how researchers were able to pinpoint these issues.

The senior policy analyst told me the 20-20 questionaire was sent to more than 2 thousand elected officials across indiana.

31 percent responded.

[take pkg outcue: bite..."that would be great" duration:1:05] pk} the survey comes from indiana university's public policy institute at i-u-p-u-i.

Senior policy analyst jamie palmer says 85 percent of those elected officials still remain optimistic about their communities future.

"local roads and bridges i think the general assembly has done a lot about that and we're just spending the money and doing the work.

Overtime it's just going to get better it doesn't get better automatically right all at once."

Over the next two years officals plan to work on affordable housing..

Internet connectivity and especially drug abuse in communities.

"its a really hard problem we really need a lot more resources and providers.

We are really limited in terms of providers."

They have been doing this survey for over twenty years, palmer says it really helps them see where the needs are.

"we're thinking about doing another survey and seeing where the state is in a few years.

That would be great."

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