SafeGrowth

How many home foreclosures can a neighborhood withstand? There is no doubt mortgage foreclosures have destroyed neighborhoods across America...

Eyes on the street at the Winter Olympics In the film Field of Dreams Kevin Costner responds to a ghostly incantation: If you build it, he w...

 Vancouver, Canada. Photo David G. Gordon , Creative Commons It's time to balance the ledger. This blog talks about problem citie...

In creating safer places we often talk programs, policies and projects. We fund this initiative or that in the belief it makes a difference ...

Foreclosures lead to crime? Lately I have been corresponding with Brent Teasdale, from Georgia State University and his research partner Lyn...

An L.A. Times article tells a story we should heed, a gem at the end of a neighborhood safety rainbow. The gem is Vermont Knolls, a neighbor...