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.
While they certainly need many things, homeless people especially need fresh socks to keep their feet warm and free from infections. And offering them socks is a shorthand way to indicate that you comprehend some of their experience, Nita Lelyveld explains.
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.
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
HUD will award the Housing Authority of the City of Sacramento $2,700,000 in grant funding for the Jobs Plus Pilot program as part of a $100 million investment in locally-based programs aimed to increase earnings and advance employment outcomes for residents of public housing through work readiness programs, employer linkages, job placement, and financial literacy
A $622,000 federal grant was awarded to the Pima County Attorney’s Office to expand advocacy services to crime victims in outlying county municipal courts
An armed anti-government group took over a remote national wildlife refuge in Oregon as part of a decades-long fight over public lands in the West, while federal authorities are keeping watch but keeping their distance
Both parties agree that the country’s national parks and historic sites could use some sprucing up. Their shared goal is to use the centennial to improve trails, visitor centers, campgrounds and other park features that need maintenance work
The University of New Hampshire is boosting efforts to prevent suicide and reduce the stigma around mental illness thanks to a $100,000 federal grant
The grant, provided by the U.S. Department of Justice, provides Charlotte-Mecklenburg police with money for technology to monitor gangs
It’s the fourth grant cycle for the program, called SHIP, and leaders in Winona County said the funding boost will continue ongoing work as well as new projects
The Pew Charitable Trusts released an analysis of Philadelphians that classifies residents based on how they feel about the city rather than where they show up in demographic categories
The VA has agreed to pay for the powered exoskeleton for eligible paralyzed veterans with spinal cord injuries - marking the first national coverage policy for robotic legs in the United States
So far this cold season, at least four deaths in McKinley County, which includes Gallup, are being investigated as potential hypothermia cases
The law enacted is designed to address shortages of full-time teachers in some subjects and substitute teachers
Cleveland has been selected among six cities to participate an initiative aimed at streamlining the investigation and prosecution of federal human trafficking offenses
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