Community / Economic Development

U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Andrew Cuomo awarded a$34.4 million grant to the Housing Authority of the City of Oakland, CA, that will be used to provide housing for 329 families and to demolish 178 deteriorated public housing apartments.

The Ventura Freeway Corridor, which stretches from Glendale to Ventura, is the latest region to try to get itself on the high-tech map.

East Palo Alto, CA, residents worked for six months to craft a proposal that was awarded a $4.5 million Hewlett Foundation Grant to help bring affordable housing, jobs, and technology training to the city's residents.

Communities face cultural differences, economic resentment, and competition for services in a fast-changing economy and shifting demographics.

The community neighboring the vacant Cornfield site in Chinatown is in desperate need of parks, schools and jobs--priorities that are often in conflict with each other.

San Francisco Chronical editorial highlights poorplanning, an unstable market and a booming economy as the major culpritsin the power crisis that has hit San Diego residents the hardest and hasbeen felt by areas across the state.

Disney is developing a dramatic set of projects that coincide with the expansion of the Anaheim Convention Center and vast infrastructure improvements.

In 1994 Lucy Blake, former director of the CA League of Conservation Voters, founded the Sierra Business Council for which she recently received $500,000 as a MacArthur Fellow.

Gated communities may not be the utopian haven they were designed to be.

San Jose neighborhood leads city's community upgrading effort.

California reflects the nation's changing demographic, economic, and political realities. California practically invented the "metroplex" concept.

A new report by the Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy tracks welfare caseloads in the 89 counties that contain the 100 largest U.S. cities.

The Brookings Review publishes cautionary notes for competitive cities.

InformationWeek Stock Index reports that the new hot trend is a focusing on a decidedly real estate issue -- which companies own office property in LA, SF and Seattle?

Only radical strategies can help America's most distressed cities.

Statement by FHA Commissioner on court rulingupholding HUD's authority to terminate alender with high default rate.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has conducted an analysis of the impacts of supportive housing programs on neighborhood property values and crime rates.

Assessed value of all real property in Santa Clara County, CA, grew 9.74 percentlast year.

To help low-income students improve their performance and reduce the high school drop-out rate, HUD announced grants intended for Empowerment Zone communities, Enterprise Communities and sites in or near public housing orHUD-assisted housing sites.

The Los Angeles Community Development Bank cuts its staff in half and has its operating account frozen by a $9 million lawsuit.