Currently holds the office of U.S. House of Representatives - Pennsylvania 3rd Congressional District until January 3, 2025.
Candidate for U.S. House of Representatives - Pennsylvania 3rd Congressional District in 2024 Pennsylvania General Election.
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Get StartedIn order to energize urban development in all neighborhoods, city officials, business owners, property developers, and non-profit institutions must work together to create strong local markets. Next Street Financial, based out of Boston and New York, offers a compelling model for how to connect small businesses with the large institutions, corporations, or nonprofits that can help them get big things done. Next Street works in partnership with ICIC, the leading authority on inner-city economies, to advise urban businesses on the strategies, organizational development, and marketing they will need to expand successfully in their communities. Learn more
We need to take this same holistic approach in neighborhoods across this country: Co-operation between the public, private and non-profit sectors. Neighborhood “downtowns” as the hubs of development. A wide variety of anchor institutions – commercial, financial, educational, cultural – in every hub. Connections between these institutions, and between the individual hubs, to form a thriving, and mobile network. Growth from within that spreads outward. And initial investment capital to catalyze this growth. Learn more
Dwight Evans will continue to work in Congress to shift federal funding from highway expansion into exurbs that has drained cities and urban cores and destroyed countless vibrant neighborhoods, and instead promote mass transit that will connect more people with jobs, increase environmental sustainability, further cut dependence on foreign oil, reduce commute times and improve quality of life for more Americans. Learn more
Invest in every neighborhood school, making it a “community school.” Dwight Evans applauds the efforts of Mayor Jim Kenney to launch “community schools” in Philadelphia. Kenny plans to launch five to seven such schools over the summer, with as many as 25 in the next four years. Learn more
Expand health care centers in schools. We also need to increase the number of school based health centers nationwide, locating them at schools with the greatest needs. School Based Health Centers provide nurses, behavioral health practitioners, and health educators to provide needed information and services – including preventive care, routine exams, diagnosis and treatment of both episodic (like strep throat) and chronic illnesses (including asthma), immunizations, sexual/reproductive health education, and counseling – to keep students healthy. Learn more
Expand technology in schools. If education is about building our nation’s future, then we should be ensuring that it involves access to the technology that forms the basis for that future. Learn more
Sometimes people need what urbanization has sometimes replaced: open space, greenery, and the natural environment. Clean air, room to run, space to think – people need these things, too, to lead and happy and productive lives. Our cities need to be places full of these opportunities, as well. Learn more
The federal government plays a major role in determining the kind of policing cities have across the country. It has subsidized and promoted the over-militarized approach to urban policing that has resulted in the counter-productive events in Ferguson, Baltimore and other cities in recent years. Learn more
We need housing policies that empower residents to plan their communities, create more affordable housing units, support broader economic development goals, preserve neighborhood stability, and help those facing housing crises. Learn more
To create the neighborhood economies we want, we need to be building not just the backbone but also the connections that these businesses need to thrive in every neighborhood. And the federal government can empower and assist local communities to undertake – and Dwight Evans will propose, and work to fund – programs like these for cities and neighborhoods across our country. Learn more
Dwight Evans wants to expand those efforts in Congress. Here’s how he’ll do it: Promote local food sources. Nationally, there is a movement toward consuming locally raised foods. More than eight in 10 consumers say they trust smaller-scale family farms to produce safe, nutritious food. These same folks are much less certain that they’re getting the good stuff from large-scale industrial operations, and willing to pay more for high quality, locally raised food. Learn more
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