City Profiles / Large Cities / Las Vegas, NV

Las Vegas, Nevada

Air Quality

To keep Nevada's clean air clean, Las Vegas has an urban forestry initiative, continues to develop trails for non-motorized transportation, has an alternative fuels program that has converted nearly all non-emergency city vehicles—1,350—to run on cleaner fuel, is improving public transit, and has committed to ICLEI's goal of emission reductions.

Standard of Living

Early in 2009 the city announced that more than $6 million in federal and state funds would go to affordable housing, for three projects for seniors and one redevelopment project. The city's Redevelopment Agency is bringing jobs to Las Vegas even during hard economic times; in February 2009 it disclosed a tentative agreement with TELUS, which will establish a new call center in the city and create 1,000 jobs.