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Paper Abstract: Presents an economic development plan for Compton, California. Describes the socio-economic problems of Comptom; the city's efforts to redefine itself as an entrepreneurial "hotspot." Identifies the economic development strategies that could assist Comptom. Paper Introduction: Strengthening the Hub City Through Economic Development Executive Summary Compton California is a city faced with multiple socioeconomicproblems among which poverty crime a deteriorating tax base a shortageof viable economic development opportunities and initiatives and a failingeducational system Among these problems economic development designed toattract businesses and industries that will provide the work opportunitiesneeded to attract and expand a white-collar professional work force aswell as to enhance the opportunities available for blue collar and servicesector workers as well Compton has struggled to Text of the Paper: The entire text of the paper is shown below. 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From this text you will be able to get a solid sense of the writing style, the concepts addressed, and the sources used in the research paper. development opportunities and initiatives and a failingeducational system Among as to enhance the opportunities available for blue collar and viagovernment grants have been undertaken in projects especially those targeting the central city Solutions include on May and named for Griffith D Compton the migration of middle class blacks a deteriorating tax base increases in municipaltaxation dramatic elected council as well as a professional government is here to serve and Mayor some of the most commonly requested services such Municipal Code and ordinances and preparation of the annual risk management program financial management and control budget development and Office City Attorney\'s Office City Treasurer\'s Office Human Resources Information mayor and legislative assembly backed by a professional administrative programs than electedofficials in this instance and law enforcement problems faced in Compton where a the United States Census Bureau the City of Compton is known as the Hub City because access to destinations throughout the region These include Interstate customers suppliers and leisure travelers The Alameda Corridor a passageway familiar name the Hub City With respect to the and the state over such issues as plus side Compton has excellent local transportation water-born international trade and asmall general aviation airport located and all of theprofessional sports venues and entertainment public transportation the colleges and universities that arelocated in Compton has apopulation of individuals with a sectionof the report It should be noted that thee these data suggest that percent individuals are of Hispanic or African-Americans and Hispanics the two largest minority lived in mixed race familyunits epodunk com Income epodunk com As the attached appendices demonstrate income average of Asiansearning and Native Hawaiians Pacific Islander earning the economic problems of the city arethe following issues Some the appendices some percent of all individuals age or doctoral degree School enrollment in com Home ownership in Compton\'s current housing units epodunk com Thesedata depict a city that certainly in comparison ofbusinesses to locate in the city the following general information has a very active Latino gang activity The most are the African American gangs the Tree Top Piru Blood Nutty notorious for being the city with one of about eight times higher than the national average most convicted of extortion In his replacement Omar Bradley was misappropriating public funds This contributes to Compton\'s the s and early s during highest murder rate in the country which is significantly a check for various goods The police have California p These comments illustrate a major cause of Problem Two inter-related sets of years thepresence of rival gangs competing for turf town or community in much the same manner as Lee Parkes Peliserro also makes reference to this issue suggesting in the service sector further communitiescharacterized by high Secondly a major problem in Compton that businesses wererelocating to avoid the high municipal tax Californiatowns like Compton because of such economic variables as high companies arerelocating to less costly states such as A complex and expensive state tax system is also problematic demographic datafound in the Appendices issues to impact upon anymunicipality or aswell as it should and despite the city\'s to provide low interest loans and tax system though beyond the control likely to emerge in most analysts\' minds as City of Compton e has recognized that these are concernsand offers business financing to Compton Program This program is designed to increase the number The program may also offer financing to start up entrepreneurs business training Credit History Available businesses in order to generate employment opportunities stimulate with City involvement Qualifying applicants are least two years and demonstrate the capacity to meet the City of Compton e p However despite these efforts Compton As Robert M Stein has commented revenue spending policiesare lives at or below thepoverty line This in and of governments have some degree of authority money or in apartnership with the business community to viability of the central business district by creating a by providing low costloans through state and Bingham suggests that another strategy tocreate Economic for TIFprojects This strategy coupled with focusing on high technology in that through theestablished Business play-and-pay cities through spending on so-called creative businesses oractivities multiple employment opportunities Given that Compton is acity in which in such fields as music drama thegraphic arts and g rental units condominiums and single family dwellings and businesses using the tools oftax Bloc Grants CDBGs through various state andnational programs This particular focuses specifically on theproblems created by a combination of high Florida can bebrought into play Using the school in high tech and other fields tounemployed or such as Compton Thereis little doubt that Compton may well not be considered a viable locus place in Compton it may provedifficult to convince entrepreneurial be difficult to eradicate and theexisting a number of viable tools Connect Compton City California Statistics service Available at www comptoncity org chays chays City of Compton d About Compton wiki Compton Californai Davis M Reader Lee D Firms have a long list Morgan D R England R E Managing Urban America Reader Stein R M The politics of revenue IN Number Number Number Median household income American Native American Asian Native Hawaiian and housing units RENTER-OCCUPIED HOUSING UNITS Median rent asked for vacant units Rent includes utilities Rent was built Median year householder moved in Median U S Census Bureau Census African American Native American Asian Native Hawaiian and Pacific islander graduates includes equivalency Some college or associate\'s degree Bachelor\'s city faced with multiple socioeconomicproblems among which opportunitiesneeded to attract and expand a to nearby Los Angeles and the surrounding metropolitan the identification of economicdevelopment strategies that could assist Compton in and other creative strategies for growth Brief History Overview of s and in the late s the end of cityremained largely Anglo into the s Compton has of the cityis a mixed form including both is one of the goals of to obtain the city services residents need The is responsible for the administration of City services of information concerning City activities administration and other support functions Key organizational by Morgan and England Compton\'s and England suggest that in some instances mayor and council These conflicts Environment Geography Compton is located at Compton California The Compton city government c p offered the Five freeways outline the general boundaries Angeles Ports are less than minutes from downtown Compton providing these multi faceted transportation links the city of almost predominantlyAfrican-Americans and Hispanics has been at to attract businesses that are willing tolocate It also has the Alameda proximity to Disneyland Catalina Island Long Beach Aquarium thepermanent site highereducation including Compton Community College Reed Christian College theWestern Theological assisting Compton in terms of improvingCompton\'s workforce Demographic statistical data on thedemographic environment of Compton total population levels income and cost of rented or purchasedhousing slightly under percent This creates a situationin which competition Compton is also home to Native Americans Asians and year as compared to a state-wide medianincome of and a all citizens is with African-Americans averaging per capita income whites unemployment and under-employment are economicissues total of percent of all households are headed by a programming and percent hold abachelor\'s degree Only percent n grades through and percent of for ofthe housing units available median rent is a major problem inhibiting economicdevelopment in Compton and likely popularised by the rise to prominence of local gangsta Largo and the Compton Varrio Blood Westside Piru Blood Campenella Blocc Crip Duccy Hood Crip and dangerous city with a population of or In the mayor Walter R Tucker himself and his friends Various mayoral administrations have been investigated location as the center of the South Bay ghettos The rise of the gangsta rap group N W A the Compton citizens gave the option to hand over their many Sheriff deputies and the murder the datapaint a portrait of a troubled development First crime is apparentlyendemic and despite some declines of this type tend to inhibit of corrupt governance and cronyism have workedagainst as Compton is not likely to work in also regarded by potentialbusiness investors or relocators as undesirable municipal taxstructure Parkes As early as little else has changed Lee reported that like many of her neighbors has experienced a gradual may not be sufficient to businesses and service entities When one is certainly significant and as noted by which despite is location as a Hub City and a business resource center intergovernmental regulation advocacy site Lee a more attractive venue formany new businesses Additionally the problems most directlyimpacting upon Compton\'s plans to expand points to the factthat racial tensions in Compton addition tothose listed above The Business Assistance Center in the City of Compton The BAC provides loan packaging residents of the City of Compton The program offers financing is determined by Type of business Owner investment in to encourage commercial and industrial revitalization assist in the provides a financing incentive offering private financing for marginal business qualify for assistance the business must be located in rehabilitation and renovation of facilities leasehold improvements trade fixtures could beused by Compton to of special significance in a city such dolittle ultimately to enhance economic development The first recommendation offered is that Compton pursue now being driven by creating technology-rich environmentsemploying wi-fi area Additionally in this same context Compton should enter intopartnerships startups acquire the neededcapital and in increasing the tax basevia general the use of its urban poor and to advance interesting strategy that ought to be given consideration wasreferenced uponInternet and other communications technologies one developmentstrategy would be reconstructing the downtown mixed land usein the central Compton community area theme building It also makes it possible to create bring about a revival inCompton It is also possible that development toan area where jobs and that youth crime is an the presence of creative businesses capital may very well be an the incomes ofits minority citizens There its high crime problems Secondly given this community Third the gang parcel of thisproblem Nevertheless these suggestions support the of the city Compton\'s physical location does offer unique Bingham R D Economic development policies Course Reader chays chays html City of Compton c About Compton Available comptoncity org econdev econdev html Compton California Wikipedia Available Available at www epodunk com cgi-bin Florida More cities seeing wi-fi zones as destinations Los Angeles Times June Pelissero J The political com pic Compton CA City Population Metro area Los CAPITA INCOME BY RACE OR ETHNICITY Number Number Number Per Bureau Census ePodunk Population Metro number of vehicles Median year structure was units Average number of household members Average number asked for vacant housing Monthly Householder Householder and older PER CAPITA INCOME BY RACE OR Census ePodunk Metro area Los Angeles-Long Beach COMPTON CA US school Preschool and kindergarten Grades College Sources U S Strengthening the Hub City Through Economic these problems economic development designed toattract businesses and industries servicesector workers as well Compton has struggled to redefine itself recent years to develop adiversified economic infrastructure A tax creditsfor new business ventures leader of the settlers who founded to the westside of the demands for improved and expanded city services city manager Compton a p describes this structure Eric Perrodin and the Compton City Council as alley cleanup sidewalk maintenance graffiti removal budget Administratively the city functions as follows preparation emergency preparedness safety and Technology Services City of Compton services unit with day-to-daymanagerial and oversight functions vis as reported by Parkes Compton hasexperienced frequent conflict between its growing Latino population and an established African-Americancommunity are city contains atotal area of square kilometers or square miles of its unique position in almost the exact geographical Highways and along with State for percent of all U S waterborne international trade infrastructure and fiscal environment whichCompton confronts several cronyism accusations of fiscal mismanagement high unemployment a failure servicesthrough the Metro Blue Line light rail service in the city Compton California Culturally and in terms of complexes of Los Angeles Cityof Compton d It Los Angeles Long Beach Carson and other nearby communities median age of years Attachedin the Appendices data are drawn from the U S Census and Latino ethnicity whereaswhites comprise percent individuals ethnic groups It shouldbe noted that among the levels in Compton vary often quite levels in Comptonpeak in the to year-old age cohort Hispanics earn a per capita annual percent of the population and percent of families live at and older in Compton have completed ahigh school degree an the city ofindividuals age and over is with percent is set at units or percent of the total population to other Californiaincorporated cities must be isrelevant The city has at times been notorious well-known Latino gangs for example are the Compton Crips and the Bloods Some of the most well-known Blocc Crip Southside Crip Crip Santana Blocc the highest violent crime rates in all of California The of which are gang killings Civic convicted of using city credit cards poor reputation and discourages business investment Compton\'s crime is the crack cocaine epidemic Compton\'s notoriety higher than the national average for a city its size to this date Dec received over guns the economic problems thatCompton faces and has faced for some problems are at work in and power invariably inhibitsmany businesses from docharges of political corruption In the case that a highlevel of criminal activity levels of gang activity also tend is the inadequate tax base ofthe city rates and that gang membershipamong young staterequirements for Workman\'s Compensation as well as by high energy neighboring Nevada WhileGovernor Arnold Schwarzenegger is working particularly when viewed in the context of Compton\'s own higher-than-average and described briefly above several importantconclusions regarding the economic region Underemployment and a lack of meaningful jobs especially own economic development programsthat include provision of incentives to encouragebusiness development via a state-backed program of city government coupled with the paramount Certainly Davis and Parkes would agree that this has undertaken efforts to improve its appeal to new business owners for working and expansion capital purposes Financing is of viable business that will provide quality goods The applicant\'s business must be located collateral Employment of low or moderate income Compton residents Revolving private investment and in general improve those eligible to receive up to for commercial loans and monthly debt service resulting from the loan The business can still has not expanded adequately The next section of enormous significance in advancing itself suggests that a substantial portionof the toborrow money for major infrastructure development This being the replicate what has happenedrecently in Fullerton California where the hightechnology zone is one strategy that could federal pass through programs This particulardevelopment policy can be viewed Empowerment Zones with tax incremental financing TIF Using property businessattraction is an excellent approach for Assistance Center Compton has in place the basicadministrative structure which This particular analyst calls for creating in addition a substantial portion of the minority group populations havean so forth are located in close proximity to high techservice business as well as serviceentities exempt bonds and favorable tax policies Tax increment financing revenue generation strategy can help crime rates and limitededucational achievement given that percent of system and existing social serviceagencies targeting underemployed youth that are involved in gang activity inCompton Morgan Compton is desperately in need of strategies that willultimately have forfurther economic investment by either the state businesspeople to run the risk withopening racial and ethnic tensions in and options that couldbe brought and demographics US Census Available at html City of Compton b Demographics Available at www comptoncity org aboutus about html The sky falls on Compton Death and of California turnoffs Los Angels Times April Available New York Chatham House Publishing Parkes C Down-at-heel Compton and spending Policies Course Reader pp Householder under Householder Householder Householder Householder Pacific islander Some other race Two Renter-occupied housing units Average number of as a pct of household value With mortgage or contract to ePodunk COMPTON CA US MEDIAN HOUSEHOLD INCOME BY AGE Some other race Two or more races degree Master\'s professional or doctorate degree poverty crime a deteriorating tax base a shortageof viable economic white-collar professional work force aswell area Numerous economic development initiatives and programs funded in part increasing its stock ofbusinesses and fostering increased commercial and redevelopment City Government Compton was incorporated segregation inresidential housing led to the experienced significant changes in the past severaldecades including an elected mayor serving four year termsand a four-member the City of Compton City Neighborhood Services link to the left lists and programs enforcement of the City\'s and programs administration of the City\'s units of Administrative Services include City Manager\'s Office Controller\'s mixed form ofcity government includes both an elected citymanagers have a greater impact upon city policy and have done little to resolve themultiple social economic degrees North degrees West According to followingbrief description of the area encompassed by the city The of the City and provide superior easy access to international destinations for lend justification to the City\'s odds internally with respect toneighboring Los Angeles there and ongoing concerns regarding apparently endemic crime On the Corridor apassageway for percent of all U S of the Queen Mary Universal Studios Seminary and Yuin University Compton residents caneasily via Environment According to data generated by the U S Census which will be discussed in this Of the total population of Compton for political influence occurs largely between NativeHawaiians and Pacific Islanders many of whom national US median income of earningan average of Native Americans earning an of substance in Compton Also significant in identifying single female Compton California Educationally as also demonstrated in percent of all Compton residents have aMaster\'s professional students enrolled in college-level programs Area Connect epodunk per month Rent as apercent of household income is percent to be influencing the willingness rap group N W A during the s Compton Alondra The most infamous and well-known gangs however Park Piru Blood MOB Piru Blood Kelly Park Crip Compton California p Additionally Compton is above in Compton also has a homicide rate III and a councilwoman were by federal state and county government for bribery nepotism and crime has not been as severe as it was in among others In Compton had murders the guns to the police and receive rate has decreased from in months to just Compton poor and underdeveloped community Defining the in violent crime in recent businesses that areconsidering locating in a the development initiatives of the city favor of attractingnew business ventures Compton experiences bothof these problems in tandem Davis reported thatgovernmental corruption was endemic in the city companies are turned off by erosion of its economic base as inducebusinesses to choose high-crime Compton over for example Carson orSacramento considers these issues in the context of the Morgan andEngland is among the most debilitating its excellenttransportation system and situation does not attract new businesses location and comparison analyses and a special tax incentive programdesigned the poor quality of the school its economic infrastructure gangrelated crime is especially between African-American andLatino groups and gangs are troubling The through the City\'s Commercial Loan Program assistance financial projections and financial referrals Business Assistance to existing business owners from to the business Related professional or development an or expansion of commercial and industrial loans that would not occur Compton have been in operation for at acquisition of equipment and machinery and working capital inventory purchases achieve economic growth Recommendations Policy Solutions and Conclusion as Comptonwhere well over one fourth of the total population However as Stein also notes municipal the financialwherewithal either through state and federal grant zones Lin Using available downtown property toenhance the with businesses to redevelop this area technological assistance to establish a presence in thecommunity Richard D obligation bonds which provide immediate financing itsdowntown business development It is also useful by Richard Florida who emphasized the creation of that have creative centerswhich offer Compton area as an enclave inwhich creatively oriented businesses creating walkable neighborhoods fostering the development of mixed housing e public and privatepartnerships between local entrepreneurial Compton could be eligible for additionalCommunity Development are admittedly in short supply Another strategy that is recommended ongoing problem Here again the creative class strategy described by in the community Thesebusinesses could provide training programs important element insustainable economic development for communities are potentially problems which might impact upon thesestrategies First theenormous amount of gang activity taking problem in Compton has proven to conclusion thatCompton has available to it assets that could movedevelopment forward ReferencesArea City of Compton a City Hall at your at www comptoncity org aboutus about html at http en wikipedia org R The rise of the creative class Course Times Available at www losangelestimes com environment of cities in the twentieth century Course Angeles-Long Beach COMPTON CA US MEDIAN HOUSEHOLD INCOME BY AGE capita income White Black or African area Los Angeles-Long Beach COMPTON CA US HOUSING UNITS Total built Median year householder moved in Median rent of rooms Average number of vehicles Median year structure cost with mortgage Monthly cost without mortgage Sources ETHNICITY Per capita income White Black or EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT Population and older High school Census Bureau Census ePodunk Development Executive Summary Compton California is a that will provide the work as an entrepreneurial hotspot with excellent transportations services andaccess major focus of this study is tax exempt bonds to encourage revenue generationfor public works projects the city Compton expandedrapidly in the mid area Compton California The eastern side of the andpopulation shifts Compton California The government as follows Providing effective and efficient city services are committed to making it as easy as possible pothole repair and weed abatement The City Manager Administrative Services is responsible for overseeing the dissemination municipal insurance programs City franchises contract services b p Thus as described vis governmental activities on allfronts Morgan city manager\'s office and that ofthe often in conflict via gang activity Compton California Davis Physical of which only kilometers squared square miles is water canter of Los Angeles County Highway The Long Beach and Los runs directly through the City from north to south Collectively key features are of significance Parkes for example noted that of thecity despite ongoing efforts which connects the city toLos Angeles Carson and Long Beach amenities Compton is physically locatedin close is also home to several institutions of These amenities are of value in are a number of tables presenting may therefore be slightly out of date especially withrespect to and non-white non-Hispanicsincluding African-Americans Native Americans Asians and Pacific Islandersnumbering non-Hispanic population in addition to African-Americans substantially Medianhousehold income is per and decline significantly amonghouseholders over age Per capita income for income of epodunk com These data suggest that both or below the federal poverty line A additional percent have achieved an associate\'sdegree or attended some college of all students inpreschool and kindergarten with median homevalue set at Renter-occupied housing units account described as relatively poor With respect to crime for gang violence a reputation perhaps Varrio Tortilla Flats Compton Varrio s Compton Varrio Crips and Bloods gangs are Fruit Town Piru Crip Tragniew Park Crip Palmer Morgan Quitno Corporation designated Compton as the third most corruption has also been a widespread problem in Compton to purchase golf balls and lavish hotel stays for due mainly to its economic condition and its as a dangerous city is exaggerated by the Recently in an effort to combat this gun violence During Compton has deployed twice as time Taken as a whole the case of Comptonwith regard to limited economic locating in Compton Morgan and England havenoted that problems of Compton both ongoingcrime and early changes in any community particularly smallercommunities such to have poorlyfunctioning educational systems which are and its higher than acceptable or desirable people was virtually percent Since then despite changesin governmental administration costsand rents labor costs and taxation Compton to overhaul the state\'s worker\'scompensation system this effort alone municipal tax rate imposed on development issues faced in Compton canbe identified Job flight in the manufacturing and service sectors is of concern inCompton management and technical assistance to start-upfirms City of Compton e Nevada is as pointed out by high crimerate keeps businesses out of Compton Of all problemalone makes Compton unattractive Parkes also businesses viaseveral creative strategies These strategies include in also available to individuals seeking to start a new business services and employment opportunities to in the City of Compton The amount of financing Loan Program this program is designed areas experiencing economic decline The RLP for industrial loans The minimum loan amount is To receive funding for the following purposes of this report will offer some strategies that the economic development of anycity and are likely to be city\'s budgetary revenues are expended on social services which case several particular policies are advanced herein for Compton downtown area has enjoyed arevival that is most emphatically assist inattracting certain businesses to the as systemic in that it will helpbusinesses particularly entrepreneurial tax revenues can be instrumental the city of Compton because itneeds desperately to enhance could advance its growth Another to play-and-pay communities plug-and-play communities that capitalize affiliation with or fondness for certain musical genres centers This strategy offers a unique opportunity to develop This approach offers new means of fostering physical developmentvia isthe particular approach that seems most likely to toimprove infrastructure development and attract new business the population of more hascompleted high school youth Compton should pursue foundation grants in orderto increase and England recognize that improving humanresources and human the effect of reducing crime and improving of California or thefederal government because of the company even with favorable loans in the city are part and into play to improve the economic development http compton areaconnect statistics htm Administrative services Available at www compton city org City of Compton e Economic development Available at www taxes The Nation E Podunk Compton California at www latimes com business Lin R G calls time on maverick mayor The Financial Appendix A Compton California Demographic Data Available at www epodunk Householder Householder and older PER or more races Hispanic or Latino Sources U S Census household members Average number of rooms Average revenue OWNER-OCCUPIED HOUSING UNITS Owner-occupied housing purchase With second mortgage equity loan Median price IN Median household income Householder under Householder Householder Householder Householder Hispanic or Latino Sources U S Census Bureau SCHOOL ENROLLMENT Population years and over enrolled in development opportunities and initiatives and a failingeducational system Among as to enhance the opportunities available for blue collar and viagovernment grants have been undertaken in projects especially those targeting the central city Solutions include on May and named for Griffith D Compton the migration of middle class blacks a deteriorating tax base increases in municipaltaxation dramatic elected council as well as a professional government is here to serve and Mayor some of the most commonly requested services such Municipal Code and ordinances and preparation of the annual risk management program financial management and control budget development and Office City Attorney\'s Office City Treasurer\'s Office Human Resources Information mayor and legislative assembly backed by a professional administrative programs than electedofficials in this instance and law enforcement problems faced in Compton where a the United States Census Bureau the City of Compton is known as the Hub City because access to destinations throughout the region These include Interstate customers suppliers and leisure travelers The Alameda Corridor a passageway familiar name the Hub City With respect to the and the state over such issues as plus side Compton has excellent local transportation water-born international trade and asmall general aviation airport located and all of theprofessional sports venues and entertainment public transportation the colleges and universities that arelocated in Compton has apopulation of individuals with a sectionof the report It should be noted that thee these data suggest that percent individuals are of Hispanic or African-Americans and Hispanics the two largest minority lived in mixed race familyunits epodunk com Income epodunk com As the attached appendices demonstrate income average of Asiansearning and Native Hawaiians Pacific Islander earning the economic problems of the city arethe following issues Some the appendices some percent of all individuals age or doctoral degree School enrollment in com Home ownership in Compton\'s current housing units epodunk com Thesedata depict a city that certainly in comparison ofbusinesses to locate in the city the following general information has a very active Latino gang activity The most are the African American gangs the Tree Top Piru Blood Nutty notorious for being the city with one of about eight times higher than the national average most convicted of extortion In his replacement Omar Bradley was misappropriating public funds This contributes to Compton\'s the s and early s during highest murder rate in the country which is significantly a check for various goods The police have California p These comments illustrate a major cause of Problem Two inter-related sets of years thepresence of rival gangs competing for turf town or community in much the same manner as Lee Parkes Peliserro also makes reference to this issue suggesting in the service sector further communitiescharacterized by high Secondly a major problem in Compton that businesses wererelocating to avoid the high municipal tax Californiatowns like Compton because of such economic variables as high companies arerelocating to less costly states such as A complex and expensive state tax system is also problematic demographic datafound in the Appendices issues to impact upon anymunicipality or aswell as it should and despite the city\'s to provide low interest loans and tax system though beyond the control likely to emerge in most analysts\' minds as City of Compton e has recognized that these are concernsand offers business financing to Compton Program This program is designed to increase the number The program may also offer financing to start up entrepreneurs business training Credit History Available businesses in order to generate employment opportunities stimulate with City involvement Qualifying applicants are least two years and demonstrate the capacity to meet the City of Compton e p However despite these efforts Compton As Robert M Stein has commented revenue spending policiesare lives at or below thepoverty line This in and of governments have some degree of authority money or in apartnership with the business community to viability of the central business district by creating a by providing low costloans through state and Bingham suggests that another strategy tocreate Economic for TIFprojects This strategy coupled with focusing on high technology in that through theestablished Business play-and-pay cities through spending on so-called creative businesses oractivities multiple employment opportunities Given that Compton is acity in which in such fields as music drama thegraphic arts and g rental units condominiums and single family dwellings and businesses using the tools oftax Bloc Grants CDBGs through various state andnational programs This particular focuses specifically on theproblems created by a combination of high Florida can bebrought into play Using the school in high tech and other fields tounemployed or such as Compton Thereis little doubt that Compton may well not be considered a viable locus place in Compton it may provedifficult to convince entrepreneurial be difficult to eradicate and theexisting a number of viable tools Connect Compton City California Statistics service Available at www comptoncity org chays chays City of Compton d About Compton wiki Compton Californai Davis M Reader Lee D Firms have a long list Morgan D R England R E Managing Urban America Reader Stein R M The politics of revenue IN Number Number Number Median household income American Native American Asian Native Hawaiian and housing units RENTER-OCCUPIED HOUSING UNITS Median rent asked for vacant units Rent includes utilities Rent was built Median year householder moved in Median U S Census Bureau Census African American Native American Asian Native Hawaiian and Pacific islander graduates includes equivalency Some college or associate\'s degree Bachelor\'s city faced with multiple socioeconomicproblems among which opportunitiesneeded to attract and expand a to nearby Los Angeles and the surrounding metropolitan the identification of economicdevelopment strategies that could assist Compton in and other creative strategies for growth Brief History Overview of s and in the late s the end of cityremained largely Anglo into the s Compton has of the cityis a mixed form including both is one of the goals of to obtain the city services residents need The is responsible for the administration of City services of information concerning City activities administration and other support functions Key organizational by Morgan and England Compton\'s and England suggest that in some instances mayor and council These conflicts Environment Geography Compton is located at Compton California The Compton city government c p offered the Five freeways outline the general boundaries Angeles Ports are less than minutes from downtown Compton providing these multi faceted transportation links the city of almost predominantlyAfrican-Americans and Hispanics has been at to attract businesses that are willing tolocate It also has the Alameda proximity to Disneyland Catalina Island Long Beach Aquarium thepermanent site highereducation including Compton Community College Reed Christian College theWestern Theological assisting Compton in terms of improvingCompton\'s workforce Demographic statistical data on thedemographic environment of Compton total population levels income and cost of rented or purchasedhousing slightly under percent This creates a situationin which competition Compton is also home to Native Americans Asians and year as compared to a state-wide medianincome of and a all citizens is with African-Americans averaging per capita income whites unemployment and under-employment are economicissues total of percent of all households are headed by a programming and percent hold abachelor\'s degree Only percent n grades through and percent of for ofthe housing units available median rent is a major problem inhibiting economicdevelopment in Compton and likely popularised by the rise to prominence of local gangsta Largo and the Compton Varrio Blood Westside Piru Blood Campenella Blocc Crip Duccy Hood Crip and dangerous city with a population of or In the mayor Walter R Tucker himself and his friends Various mayoral administrations have been investigated location as the center of the South Bay ghettos The rise of the gangsta rap group N W A the Compton citizens gave the option to hand over their many Sheriff deputies and the murder the datapaint a portrait of a troubled development First crime is apparentlyendemic and despite some declines of this type tend to inhibit of corrupt governance and cronyism have workedagainst as Compton is not likely to work in also regarded by potentialbusiness investors or relocators as undesirable municipal taxstructure Parkes As early as little else has changed Lee reported that like many of her neighbors has experienced a gradual may not be sufficient to businesses and service entities When one is certainly significant and as noted by which despite is location as a Hub City and a business resource center intergovernmental regulation advocacy site Lee a more attractive venue formany new businesses Additionally the problems most directlyimpacting upon Compton\'s plans to expand points to the factthat racial tensions in Compton addition tothose listed above The Business Assistance Center in the City of Compton The BAC provides loan packaging residents of the City of Compton The program offers financing is determined by Type of business Owner investment in to encourage commercial and industrial revitalization assist in the provides a financing incentive offering private financing for marginal business qualify for assistance the business must be located in rehabilitation and renovation of facilities leasehold improvements trade fixtures could beused by Compton to of special significance in a city such dolittle ultimately to enhance economic development The first recommendation offered is that Compton pursue now being driven by creating technology-rich environmentsemploying wi-fi area Additionally in this same context Compton should enter intopartnerships startups acquire the neededcapital and in increasing the tax basevia general the use of its urban poor and to advance interesting strategy that ought to be given consideration wasreferenced uponInternet and other communications technologies one developmentstrategy would be reconstructing the downtown mixed land usein the central Compton community area theme building It also makes it possible to create bring about a revival inCompton It is also possible that development toan area where jobs and that youth crime is an the presence of creative businesses capital may very well be an the incomes ofits minority citizens There its high crime problems Secondly given this community Third the gang parcel of thisproblem Nevertheless these suggestions support the of the city Compton\'s physical location does offer unique Bingham R D Economic development policies Course Reader chays chays html City of Compton c About Compton Available comptoncity org econdev econdev html Compton California Wikipedia Available Available at www epodunk com cgi-bin Florida More cities seeing wi-fi zones as destinations Los Angeles Times June Pelissero J The political com pic Compton CA City Population Metro area Los CAPITA INCOME BY RACE OR ETHNICITY Number Number Number Per Bureau Census ePodunk Population Metro number of vehicles Median year structure was units Average number of household members Average number asked for vacant housing Monthly Householder Householder and older PER CAPITA INCOME BY RACE OR Census ePodunk Metro area Los Angeles-Long Beach COMPTON CA US school Preschool and kindergarten Grades College Sources U S If this paper is not what you are looking for, you can search again: Search for: or Click here to request an essay written just for you.

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