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.
Non-profit leaders speak out against Trump administration cuts to congressionally funded grant programs
Grants to benefit 21 local farmers markets and 17 individual vendors
Grants, up to $25,000, will support community relief, community outreach, training, specialized equipment and vegetation mitigation and fuels reduction
While Lucas led the City Council to pass historic ordinances to limit access to firearms for minors and domestic abusers, 2019 also brought near-record homicides -- 151 -- and more than 480 nonfatal shootings.
An Emergency Medical Services official said the county could not rule out carbon monoxide in the recent deaths of two infants at the complex until autopsies are done.
Headlines have predicted a housing revolution as attitudes about suburban life have evolved, but that doesn’t mean the transition away from single-family zoning won’t be slow and difficult
What hurts the most, said Kellee Fernandez, sister to one of the victims, is knowing how much her brother had to offer to others
While implementing a smart city program is often easier said than done, overcoming these challenges will have your city on its way to hyperconnectivity in no time
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.
For Houston families who have endured floods, it’s hard to sustain traditions around furniture that isn’t there anymore or build traditions when there’s no guarantee your home will stay the way it is.
Cities are encouraging residents to walk and bike, but their roads are still dominated by fast-moving vehicular traffic
The city’s police chief calls the cameras in street lights ‘a game changer.’ Critics aren’t so sure, especially given that the program was introduced as a way to save energy and money instead of a way to collect data in public spaces.
“We know we’ve been through a lot in 2019. People are just beginning to unpack it; I’m just unpacking it,” said Mayor Nan Whaley. "[But] to see Dayton be kind and proud of itself through such terrible, painful, hateful acts has been really beautiful at the same time.”
Police yellow tape and makeshift memorials with flowers, stuffed animals and balloons have become common in some neighborhoods of this deeply segregated city.
State Farm, the largest in the state, Allstate and other insurers declined to renew roughly 350,000 policies in areas at high risk for wildfires since 2015, the California Department of Insurance said back in August.
Saturday’s fire was possibly the deadliest in the Las Vegas area since 1980, when 87 people died and more than 700 were injured in a fire at the MGM Grand Hotel.
For many counties, rising poverty rates underscore the importance of fully counting residents in next year’s census, since a count of low-income residents will help determine funding available to help them.
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