Compton faces housing instability, poverty, food insecurity, and environmental health burdens. Yet the city shows resilience through faith networks, educational anchors, and neighborhood mutual aid. Trusted hubs like Dollarhide Community Center, parks, libraries, and transit corridors anchor civic life. Strong partnerships depend on place-based delivery, cross-sector coordination, warm handoffs, shared goals, and community-informed design.

California’s High-Risk audit findings expose a deep governance failure: billions are spent through systems the State cannot or won't fully measure, audit, or enforce. Improper payments, eligibility errors, weak IT controls, delayed financial reporting, rising energy costs, untracked homelessness spending, stalled infrastructure, and undocumented immigration costs all point to the same problem. For communities like Compton, this translates into higher living costs, and less se