SANTA PAULA, CA -- ...For several years, there has been a tide of sentiment that Santa Paula has missed out, that it has become a dumping ground of sagging roofs and 99-cent stores while neighbors like Moorpark and Camarillo have prospered. And some critics — many of them members of the white minority — have decided that the poor are the problem.

NEW ORLEANS, LA -- On February 28, United Nations human rights experts proclaimed that New Orleans' plans to demolish four massive public housing complexes would deny its "predominantly African-American residents … [their] internationally recognised human rights."

ROCKLIN, CA -- Rocklin voters on Tuesday narrowly approved the development of Clover Valley, allowing the construction of up to 558 homes on more than 600 acres after a decades-long battle to gain final approval...

In January, the tribe that owns Thunder Valley Casino - the United Auburn Indian Community -- said it will buy the ancient Native American sites on the valley floor of Clover Valley once voters approved the referendum, Measure H.

With that purchase, the landowners, Clover Valley Partners, said they would build only 404 homes -- a significant change from the 974 custom homes they had planned to build when they first proposed the project two decades ago. MORE