Keep Informed

July 2007

• LOS ANGELES -- Gains made in fighting gangs
• LOS ANGELES -- Foreclosure rate soars in first half of 2007
• SEATTLE -- Home appraisers pressured to fudge the numbers
• OPINION -- Community building 101
• U.S. -- How Do New McMansions Affect the Value of Neighboring Homes?
• LOS ANGELES -- How to Fix Our Gridlock
• LOS ANGELES -- One gang member's struggle to break free
• VANCOUVER -- Eco-Cities – Building Better Cities for the 21st Century
• LOS ANGELES -- Sacramento Bites Back
• U.S. -- Cities Juggle New Condos with Industrial Base
• U.S. -- Cramming Vehicles Into Less Space Garages Use New (Old) Technology
• OPINION -- Fare-Free Public Transit Could Be Headed to a City Near You
• U.S. -- US town anti-migrant law quashed
• LOS ANGELES -- Anti-homelessness fight gets troops
• LOS ANGELES -- Foreclosures jump 800 percent
• SAN FRANCISCO -- Foreclosures go through the roof
• SEATTLE -- Land trust helps keep home prices low
• LONG BEACH -- Neighbors stage house protest
• UK -- Humans 'affect global rainfall'
• LOS ANGELES -- Skid Row program praised, criticized
• LONG BEACH -- California-friendly yards
• SEATTLE -- Scooter to help assess disabled access on Bellevue's sidewalks
• OPINION -- Small step for homeless
• CALIFORNIA -- Higher education's hidden cost
• U.S. -- Affordable housing – a rehab plan
• U.S. Bedbugs are crawling out of the woodwork again
• AFRICA -- City's heart is hardening, say homeless
• SAN FRANCISCO -- Aparkalypse Now II
• U.S. -- Should US cities try a London-style camera network?
• SAN FRANCISCO -- Eco-tough S.F. code proposed for buildings
• DENVER -- Goodbye balcony
• BERKELEY -- Neighbors fed up with homeless sleeping near People's Park
• LOS ANGELES -- New homeless dumping allegation probed
• OPINION -- A New Two-Wheeled Course?
• SAN FRANCISCO -- Car-first policy
• NEW YORK -- In This Case, It’s O.K. to Take a Bike That’s Not Yours
• SEATTLE -- Activists disrupt School Board meeting again
• ATLANTA -- Proposal aims to limit big houses on little lots
• CHICAGO -- New kicks (for builders) on Route 66
• MINN -- Do great neighborhoods begin with a coffee shop?
• PHILADELPHIA -- Friends, indeed, to conservation
• OPINION -- Help for the homeless
• SACRAMENTO -- The changing face of L.A.
• SAN DIEGO -- Council takes measures to limit 'mini-dorms'
• U.S. -- We spend far more, but our health care is falling behind
• WASHINGTON -- County may let congestion increase
• OPINION -- Black-on-black violence is killing a part of the city LOS
• ANGELES -- So who gets say in L.A.?
• LONG BEACH -- Council curfew? Plan would end meeting at 11 p.m.
• SAN DIEGO -- Police explore new tipster technology
• SAN FRANCISCO -- Futuristic Federal Building wins fans, foes among workers with its innovative features
• OPINION -- Straw Men In A Sprawl World
• SAN FRANCISCO -- Scary monsters looming above city
• SEATTLE -- Cities copied 'Seattle Way' in planning
• U.S. -- New and Improved LEED Rating System Underway
• LONG BEACH -- Affordable housing brings relief to families
• OHIO -- Feeling the crush, suburbs build up
• SEATTLE -- Condos buoy housing market
• LOS ANGELES -- Drivers could pay fee in L.A.
• SAN FRANCISCO -- S.F. incurs huge costs for public retirees
• U.S. -- FBI lacks resources to fight boom in mortgage fraud
• SAN FRANCISCO -- Muni more popular with tourists than residents
• LOS ANGELES -- Near the rails but still on the road
• CHICAGO -- Church pushes shelter suit
• TAMPA -- Homeless outreach program deemed a community success
• OPINION -- The Foreclosing of America
• UK -- Driving Is Safe For Some With Alzheimer's
• SACRAMENTO -- Eminent domain rises in Assembly
• SAN DIEGO -- One sweet real estate deal
• CALIFORNIA -- Anguished tales of property taken by state