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.
A grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is a vital funding source for the San Diego Housing Commission’s Achievement Academy, a center that provides career planning, job skills, job placement and personal financial education.
Sgt. Ray Kelly, spokesman for the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office, said the department is considering billing the property’s owner -- real estate investment firm Wedgewood -- for the “tens of thousands of dollars” associated with enforcing the eviction.
“Where do people who are just barely making it go? How about these people who we promised a chance at the American dream?”
A proposed penny sales tax to help boost the salaries of public school teachers and fund other areas of public education can be placed on a ballot for a statewide vote, the Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled
Thundermist Health Center and Sojourner House are launching a new initiative to work more closely together in Woonsocket
By leveraging Panasonic’s technologies and expertise, this partnership will ultimately make Denver a more sustainable, smart city by enhancing access to and development of community engagement, energy efficiency, water conservation, public safety, healthcare and other public services
The Oklahoma-based tribe is among seven agencies and the only tribe in the nation to receive part of $2.7 million awarded by the U.S. Department of Justice as part of an initiative to fight sexual assault against women
As New York City grapples with its homelessness crisis, many of those sleeping on the street have said they’d prefer to be outside than contend with the city’s at-times overburdened, dirty and even dangerous shelter system
A federal judge heard arguments in a case that could affect whether prisoners are counted in drawing voting districts in Florida, an issue that affects voting power particularly in rural areas of the state
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is on the defensive again, dealing with the fallout from a judge’s opinion accusing a top city lawyer of hiding evidence in another case involving a fatal police shooting
A judge upheld Seattle’s so-called gun violence tax on Tuesday, rejecting a challenge from the National Rifle Association and other gun rights groups
Thousands of vacant buildings in Baltimore will be demolished over the next four years, starting in the neighborhood where Freddie Gray was arrested and fatally injured in police custody, prompting civil unrest that highlighted the urban decay
With same-sex marriage now legal nationwide, lawmakers in numerous states are preparing for a new round of battles in 2016 over whether to grant discrimination protections to LGBT people or religious exemptions to nonprofits and businesses that object to gay marriage
California would spend more than $2 billion on permanent housing to help the nation’s largest homeless population. The housing bond would be enough to construct more than 10,000 housing units when it’s combined with other federal and local money
Proposed Missouri legislation announced would seek to reduce policing bias against blacks by expanding police reporting requirements beyond vehicle stops to include ones involving pedestrians
Bills aimed at helping protect bicyclists are a focus of the first public hearing of the year at the Massachusetts Statehouse before the Legislature’s Transportation Committee
For municipalities throughout the state, grant money is a helpful tool to offset the burden on taxpayers while providing services and amenities
America’s local and regional public park agencies generated nearly $140 billion in economic activity and supported almost 1 million jobs from their operations and capital spending alone in 2013
President Barack Obama defended his administration’s plans to tighten the nation’s gun-control restrictions without going through Congress, insisting that the steps he’ll announce fall within his legal authority and uphold the constitutional right to own a gun
