Community Development
Community Development is a key priority for local and state government agencies, focusing on improving the quality of life in communities through economic growth, housing, and social services. By fostering strong, vibrant communities, governments can address poverty, unemployment, and access to resources. This directory provides articles on community development and related topics like Economic Development, which explores strategies for job creation and attracting investments that drive regional growth.
“It’s time for L.A. leaders to join the conversation on housing. That means proposing reforms to ease zoning constraints and make it easier to build housing for all income levels.”
“We have to stop putting tenants at risk and stop worsening speculation in the housing market.”
The city helped negotiate the home’s sale to the Oakland Community Land Trust, which purchased it from real estate company Wedgewood after a public outcry following the evictions.
The statistics show a 1.7 percent jump in the overall number of violent crimes reported by local law enforcement, with increases in murder, rape, robbery and aggravated assault. The FBI said violent crime rose most dramatically, at 5.3 percent, in cities with populations between 250,000 and 499,999
Boston may have one of the most vibrant nonprofit arts scenes in the country, but the city lags woefully behind other cities when it comes to institutional funding for the arts, according to a report being released
A water crisis that has flooded homes with fear and poisonous toxins has taken a tandem swipe at the city’s psyche, returning it to the negative headlines it was working hard to escape, drawing a new spotlight to poverty and other wounds it never was able to fix, and bringing a renewed sense of insecurity about what the future holds for a place that’s been through so much
New Dietary Guidelines for Americans have been released by the U.S. Departments of Agriculture (USDA) and Health and Human Services (HHS). These guidelines, which run through 2020, fall short of their potential, according the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)
Flint residents coping with lead contamination will be cleared to drink unfiltered water again only when outside experts determine it is safe, Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder said, acknowledging their mistrust of government officials while saying a full replacement of the city’s pipes is not imminent.
A federal appeals court wrestled with whether local government leaders in North Carolina are violating the Constitution by holding exclusively Christian prayers at their meetings - the first time a court at that level has addressed the issue since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a town government’s favor in a similar case in 2014
Colorado regulators approved new rules intended to ease the conflicts that arise when oil and gas rigs show up near homes and schools, but they came under immediate fire from both the industry and its critics
Angered by teacher sick-outs that have caused many Detroit school closures, majority Republicans in Michigan’s Legislature proposed — and promised to quickly pass — legislation to make it easier to deem such work stoppages illegal strikes
City officials are applying for more than $200,000 in state road resurfacing aid that they plan to put toward a controversial sidewalk project on Dwas Line Road - a move that the state says would not be allowed
Darnell Earley didn’t come up with the plan to channel corrosive river water into Flint’s old lead-lined water pipes, causing a health emergency. And he certainly can’t be blamed for the Detroit school system’s decaying facilities and wrecked finances, which have prompted teacher boycotts this month
Americans almost unanimously agree that their communities benefit from their local public parks, even if they themselves are not regular park users
For the second year, the Boys & Girls Clubs of New Jersey received a $600,000 grant from The Horizon Foundation for New Jersey to fund the Breathe Easier with Asthma Management Phase II program
Hundreds of Latin American and Caribbean cities are being invited to vie for millions of dollars from former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, as his charity extends an innovation competition to a new region
The Children’s Literacy Foundation is inviting elementary schools in Vermont and New Hampshire to apply for $25,000 in Year of the Book grants
The city of Laredo Health Department receives a grant meant to combine comprehensive HIV/AIDS services with substance abuse and or behavioral health services
Ever since the full extent of the water crisis in the city of Flint, Michigan, emerged, one question has persisted: Would this have happened in a wealthier, whiter community?
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