Problems:
- Families Can Expect to Pay 20 Percent of Income on Summer Child Care
- Texas childcare costs more than many colleges’ tuition and mortgages
- Houston charter schools lose 20-30% of teachers annually
- 43% of children live with a parent who is working a nonstandard schedule
- Parents represent 30% of students at community colleges but only 35% of community college state-wide have on-site childcare
- 46,000 Texas families are currently on the waiting list for subsidized childcare
Solutions:
- Do a feasibility study on a county or city 24 hour childcare center for families in crisis
- Create an on-site childcare at city hall for visitors and city employees
- Create an on-site childcare at county and city courthouses for visitors and public employees
- Create on-site childcare centers for teachers
- Offer childcare for city and county employees when schools are closed but public employees have to work
- Require developers to include on-site childcare centers in the city permitting process similar to Vancouver
- Create a city-run pilot program partnering with local credit unions to offer low-interest childcare loans similar to New York City
- Create a city-run program offering interest-free loans to city employees to pay for childcare costs similar to London
- Build an on-site childcare at school district administration building. Similar to other school districts throughout the nation and Texas
- Offer on-site, drop-in child care from 8am to 10 pm costing $10 per 2 hour visit at all community colleges in houston (similar to Austin Community College, Lonestar College)
- Do a feasibility study of building childcare centers at city parks similar to Singapore
- Pass an ordinance banning non-refundable, wait list fees for childcare centers
- Do a feasibility study on creating on-site, drop-in childcare at city hall and state legislature. 4 hours per visit, 8am to 6pm, $5 per hour. Similar to Scottish Parliament
- Do a feasibility study requiring wall mounted diaper changing stations (New York City, Columbus, Baltimore, California, New York, Miami-Dade, San Francisco, Champaign)
- Pass an ordinance allowing city council candidates to use campaign funds on childcare (New York City, Kentucky, Texas,)
- Expand the current city-run free after school program After School Achievement Program
- Require any major retail and grocery stores that receive tax incentives to have free on-site childcare for children ages 3 to 9
- Require newly built or renovated city-owned building, privately owned restaurant, theater or retail store will have to provide at least one “safe, sanitary and convenient diaper changing accommodation” in each restroom available for public use
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