The California Redevelopment Association (CRA) is a dynamic, influential, statewide nonprofit corporation dedicated to actively improving the communities of California by combating the blighting influences on declining neighborhoods and business districts. CRA has forged a remarkable alliance between public redevelopment agencies and private for-profit and nonprofit organizations to chart a better future for all California communities.

The CRA also assists interested citizens in understanding the fundamentals of a complex and powerful process utilized by three-fourths of the cities and counties in California. Redevelopment agencies are the primary agencies of local government in California that have the legal authority, ongoing funding, and mission to reverse the effects of physical and economic conditions of blight. Utilizing long-proven methods and leading-edge ideas to rebuild neighborhoods and business districts, redevelopment in California has grown to be the most comprehensive and successful state framework for the public sector to work directly with private property owners, business owners, investors, developers and tenants to revitalize declining areas of a local community.

Educational publications are available from the California Redevelopment Association, which supports and promotes redevelopment in California through strategic planning, education, and legislation.

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