What do you think Northern Kentucky needs the most to make life here better or easier?

Each week, LINK nky goes to social media to hear what the community has to say on topics directly impacting the local community. The responses below are comments given on the LINK nky Facebook page’s Question of the Week post. Users may notice their comments have been edited for grammar and brevity.

Amy Kelley Warth: Affordable apartments/ housing for young people just graduating college and/or starting their careers. This area used to be known for affordable housing, but lately rental properties have skyrocketed making independence impossible for many young adults. If we dont do something about it, we’re going to lose a generation of the workers in our area that will negatively impact our local economy for a long time.

Jennifer Fischer Davis: High speed mass transit. I mean, we need it nationally. But man, to have a quick, efficient, possibly even green way to avoid the expressways and jammed-up roads here would change lives, and save them.

Catherine Ampfer: Local governments need to work together for smart, measured growth that reins in developers, attracts new jobs and encourages & promotes local business. Ban predatory, out-of-state landlords. Make it law that landlords must be local. Take advantage of our location, link the river cities with a bike trail, make the river views available to all and not the wealthy few, with shops and restaurants along the trail. In short, Northern Kentucky towns have to do a better job working together for the common good of the region.

Peter Freeman: Better mass transit to get people, especially low-income from smaller rural areas like Silver Grove to where the jobs are, low-income affordable housing, (and) family recreation with pools.

Dorothy Gillstrap: Hands down, affordable housing.

Johnny Hell: Some kind of rent control to stop landlords and other property owning corporations from price gouging tenants and pricing out people into the streets. Higher wages that go along with the massive cost-of-living increases. I work two jobs and can barely afford a one-bedroom apartment.

Gina Dew: High speed rail from CVG to Union Terminal. Get that traffic off I-75, and more recreational facilities.

Samantha Kelsey: We need more affordable housing for everyone. They need to stop building house that generally start at 250 to 300k. We need better public transportation.

Alex Berling: Affordable housing, reliable affordable accessible public transportation, eco friendly, maybe a fast paced rail system, universal pre-K and daycare, universal healthcare, better walkability (with) sidewalks, bike lanes, etc.

Lori Savage: More routes for TANK buses, or make a regional transit authority that combines NKY and Cincinnati.

Marc Wilson: A rail system from the suburbs to downtown and to the airport.