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.
Many of Fresno’s poorest neighborhoods rank highest for a wide range of health risks, a fact public health experts say is no accident
There are 1,686 public housing units reserved for seniors and disabled people in Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley and several times as many people are waiting for a vacancy.
For the cities of San Diego and Chula Vista, Calif., the goal is to walk away from the initiative with a five-year strategic plan that will help mitigate the cost of living, improve access to childcare, address food and housing insecurity, and create a workforce pipeline for the region.
Major felony crime was down 4% during the first eight months of the year, compared with the same period in 2014
The Call to Action aims to increase walking across the U.S. by improving access to safe and convenient places to walk for people of all ages and abilities
Nationwide, the number of students walking and biking to school has steadily declined, from 41 percent in 1969 to 13 percent in 2001
Despite signs of stress — leaves turning brown after four hot and dry years — most of the sequoias seem to be holding up
The city is training non-professionals to provide mental health help to people who work with parents of small children, the unemployed poor and young people
A project pouring nearly $13 million into a three-quarter-mile stretch of North Avenue aims to lure investment to the downtrodden corridor
Detroit has unveiled a 2-year pilot program designed to train high school students as firefighters and EMTs by the time they graduate
LA’s Futurethon was a 48-hour hackathon aimed at inventing solutions to hack the California drought
Accidental drowning is the second leading cause of death for U.S. children under age 5, after birth defects
For those who manage to remain out of prison, they do so with little money and few prospects
London has launched a program to solve future city challenges through the development of human-centered solution designs
“What changes occurred - intentionally or not - that measurably improved the lives of the neighborhood’s existing residents?”
An ugly byproduct of the recent turmoil has been a newfound willingness to do harm to those in uniform, many police officers say
The city wants to steer mixed-income development to all its neighborhoods with clever tax incentives
Ending years of litigation, hunger strikes and contentious debate, California has agreed to move thousands of prison inmates out of solitary confinement
San Francisco firefighters are answering a lot of emergency calls, but a very small fraction of them are for fires
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