Urban Problems and Community DevelopmentIn recent years, concerned governments, businesses, and civic groups have launched ambitious programs of community development designed to halt, and even reverse, decades of urban decline. But while massive amounts of effort and money are being dedicated to improving the inner-cities, two important questions have gone unanswered: Can community development actually help solve long-standing urban problems? And, based on social science analyses, what kinds of initiatives can make a difference? This book surveys what we currently know and what we need to know about community development's past, current, and potential contributions. The authors--economists, sociologists, political scientists, and a historian--define community development broadly to include all capacity building (including social, intellectual, physical, financial, and political assets) aimed at improving the quality of life in low- to moderate-income neighborhoods. The book addresses the history of urban development strategies, the politics of resource allocation, business and workforce development, housing, community development corporations, informal social organizations, schooling, and public security. |
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Community development can make low- to moderate - income neighborhoods better places to live by reducing health and safety risks , connecting residents to opportunity , helping to stabilize housing and commercial investment ...
... strong resident with a focus on emleaders who also seek to empower powering church members or busiothers in the comness employees no munity matter where they live Employability Staff - driven organiskills , job training , zations ...
... Latinos , and Asian Americans have entered the middle class and have dispersed to suburbs that once excluded them , just as Kain and Persky recommended . 33 Similarly , more of the poor live in the suburbs today than in the past .
... reviews the studies on employment and income generation for residents of inner-city neighborhoods, asking whether living there imposes special disadvantages. He questions whether the mismatch between where people live and where jobs ...
Like Dickens they deemphasize the idea that jobs need to be in the neighborhoods where people live and emphasize the importance of network ties that may emanate from neighborhoods to connect people to jobs throughout the metropolitan ...