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.
For more than 40 years, federal cost-share buyout programs in the U.S. have funded local hazard mitigation. Yet in the wake of recent disasters like Hurricane Harvey, impacted residents view voluntary home buyout programs as a means of personal recovery
Homelessness is still surging throughout the San Francisco Bay region. In the city, there are about 5,200 unsheltered homeless -- a two-year, 20 percent increase driven largely by people who living in cars.
From home invasions to surprise travel mates, the Bed Bug Field Guide smartphone app provides information to assist with any encounter of the tiny pests.
Report examining the history of transportation reform in six major cities finds that citizen-led efforts are necessary to achieve reform
Illinois lawmakers advanced a plan Tuesday to direct almost $5 billion in federal funds to social service agencies
It’s safer to walk and bike where more people walk and bike because that’s where drivers pay better attention
Students at Alphapointe technology camp are using tablets to learn things like how to read books, search the web, send emails and take notes
The EPA has never cited the health and safety of prisoners as a factor in prison inspections or in the permitting of new facilities
A study conducted in Oslo, Norway, discovered creating bicycle paths was not enough to get more residents to move around via bikes rather than cars
The study found a person’s perception that he or she lives in a bad neighborhood is associated with shorter telomeres
The decision means the kids won’t spent the summer in the county’s juvenile detention center where they have been housed for the past few weeks
in 2014, non-NYPD drivers were involved in 5,805 collisions resulting in 584 injuries - 49 crashes that injured pedestrians and 15 that injured bicyclists
Now many states are rethinking how to help felons become productive citizens and reduce the likelihood they will return to prison
A new study identifies two important street features that draw pedestrians—outside of New York City
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s plan to begin regulating electronic cigarettes this summer has renewed debate over tobacco “harm reduction”
Technology that detects the sound of gunshots in Wilmington reported fewer gunshots in the last six months than the six months previous
Examples across the spectrum prove that leading-edge technology is spilling into the public sector today
By sharing code, jurisdictions can cut IT development costs and better use resources. But it’s “a matter of cultural change
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