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.
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To be truly effective, not to mention cost-effective, a prevention program would have to be able to identify that one person who will become homeless with reasonable accuracy. Researchers at UCLA’s California Policy Lab and the University of Chicago Poverty Lab are working to make this possible.
To survive the next inevitable flood, Winslow, Nebraska, residents must raise their homes, leave or restart the town at a site a few miles away and 100 feet higher with government financial help. Town leaders are pushing for the latter.
Nebraska will give an old state veterans’ home property to the city of Grand Island, which is losing the facility to make way for a new home in Kearney
Over the next decade officials want to see city leaders bring more and more people to Augusta’s parks
Officers in all 57 St. Louis County police departments will be required to meet certain minimum standard requirements following action by the county council that is expected to prompt a court challenge amid concerns from leaders of predominantly black communities who feel targeted by the measure
More than 7,800 men and women sit in Philadelphia’s overcrowded jails, three-quarters of them languishing while they await trial under a bail system that critics call outmoded and that cities - and the White House - are working to change
The number of U.S. police officers charged with murder or manslaughter for on-duty shootings has tripled this year - a sharp increase that at least one expert says could be partly the result of more video evidence
The Interbay encampment can hold 80 people; Ballard can accommodate 50.
As world leaders began talks in Paris on solutions to global warming, the National Park Service on Monday released a report detailing agency efforts to address threats to national parks from climate change
Prescott Area Shelter Services renovated a building to provide temporary housing for six homeless families thanks to a Community Development Block Grant
The program, which leverages citizen volunteers and GPS mobile app-based technology to reduce emergency response times for ambulatory calls, is expected to make Jersey City the fastest EMS response time in the country
Many cities are working to provide enough public transportation options for low- and middle-income communities to help alleviate the strains associated with the growing wealth gap
The city’s fire department received $2.4 million through the grant program which is provided to fire departments in need of personnel funding
A new study examines bike-sharing trips in Austin, Denver, Fort Worth, and Houston, comparing and visualizing the type and volume of trips in the cities
The city’s public housing authority is moving aging tenants out of homes where they’ve lived for decades, renovating them and selling them to wealthy buyers
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s office says he will create a Task Force on Police Accountability
A committee that spent months looking for ways to reduce Nebraska’s reliance on property taxes to pay for schools finished its final work session Monday with plenty of ideas but no clear-cut answers
Thriving farms are being uprooted thanks to hordes of people moving back downtown to live, which is turning green spaces into prime real estate
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