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.
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.
The former San Antonio mayor’s campaign has emphasized reaching out to marginalized and overlooked communities, such as homeless people and people of color.
As more citizens choose to explore the great outdoors, many states are investing in state parks to maintain high rates of visitors in the years to come
GAO recommends that HHS direct CDC to develop a plan describing when it will be able to issue climate change communications guidance to state and local health departments.
While traditional policing efforts are successful in reducing crime rates in some places, other cities are experimenting with new strategies to increase community safety
The U.S. VA renewed a $250,000 transportation grant to the Alaska Office of Veterans Affairs to provide transportation options to rural veterans
Cities are launching initiatives aimed to address community health and safety issues from multiple angles and by providing increased access to key resources
To find solutions to state problems, California recently hosted a code-a-thon to bring together community stakeholders and inspire innovative thinking
A Colorado county that boasts the world’s largest outdoor marijuana farm has approved the world’s first marijuana-funded college scholarship
An ordinance that would have established nondiscrimination protections for gay and transgender people in Houston failed to win approval from voters
In LA social services experts are tracing a significant portion of the city’s homeless population back to jails, foster homes, hospitals and state prisons
A yearlong Associated Press investigation illuminated the problem of rape and sexual misconduct committed by law officers in the United States
Why such a big rise in shootings in Cleveland? Is gang activity up? Are Facebook and Twitter to blame? Poverty? Drugs? Or just a statistical aberration?
Cities trying to limit panhandling are facing a new legal hurdle due to a recent Supreme Court ruling that seemingly has nothing to do with asking for money
There is a sharp split among the states in terms of banning discrimination, with some enacting such protections and a majority opting not to
The $5.5 million will help small communities develop solutions to improve local air service needs under the Small Community Air Service Development Program
There are many strategies cities may deploy to prevent blight or to manage the abandoned lots left behind in the aftermath
Coastal communities from British Columbia to California have been grappling with how to protect people from a catastrophe similar to the tsunami in Japan
