East Oakland getting closer to "Weed & Seed"

The Trib is reporting today that East Oakland may get "weed & seed" funding from the federal government. This program is designed to help urban neighborhoods with high crime rates. It is unclear from the article what use the community will be able to make of the funding. However, San Jose was an early recipient of this program and ended up leveraging the funding into what is now called the Strong Neighborhoods Initiative. SNI is a collaboration between the city and redevelopment agency to leverage tax increment financing with other municipal, state, and federal funding support across neighborhoods in order to revitalize distressed areas of San Jose.

Trib article: http://www.insidebayarea.com/oaklandtribune/localnews/ci_2647238

SNI website: http://www.strongneighborhoods.org/