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An examination of the perceived effectiveness of community development corporations: a pilot study
Scott Cummings,Mark A. Glaser +1 more
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In this article, the authors report the results of a nationwide evaluation of community development corporations and compare collective models of neighborhood economic revitalization with other strategic approaches to community development, focusing on the policy implications of the findings.Abstract:
This study reports the results of a nationwide evaluation of community development corporations. Collective models of neighborhood economic revitalization are compared with other strategic approaches to community development. Special attention is given to the policy implications of the findings. The future of community development corporations is discussed, especially in light of Reaganomics and the decline in funds for the urban poor.read more
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African American Entrepreneurship in the Suburbs
TL;DR: In this paper, the results of a systematic, national comparison of business performance among African American entrepreneurs located in cities and in suburbs are presented, and the results suggest strongly that African American would be wiser to orient their business activities outside rather than inside the ethnic enclave.
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When citizen expectations conflict with budgetary reality: discontinuity between the public's demand for services and its willingness to pay taxes
TL;DR: The tension between demand for services and willingness to pay for those services, referred to as tax-demand discontinuity, poses a dilemma for local government that will only intensify with growing fiscal constraints as mentioned in this paper.
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Neighborhood Participation in Community Development: A Comparison of Strategic Approaches
Scott Cummings,Mark A. Glaser +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the ability of community development corporations to mobilize residents of low income neighborhoods to participate in redevelopment efforts is compared and the evidence and argument show that community development corporation have not more successful than other types of community-based organizations in (1) the degree to which organizational leadership has been recruited from the neighborhood; (2) the type of control exercised by residents over redevelopment policy, and (3)the degree of fiscal autonomy achieved by the organization.
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Community of Choice or Ghetto of Last Resort: Community Development and the Viability of an African American Community1
TL;DR: The viability of local government-sponsored community development of poor ethnic enclaves hinges on the perceptions of residents as discussed by the authors, and if residents view the enclave in which they live as their community of choice, they will be more likely to join with local government to produce community improvement.
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POVERTY IN URBAN AMERICA: Policy Options
Roland Anglin,Briavel Holcomb +1 more
TL;DR: This paper explored demographic changes in the nature of poverty and recent government efforts to cope with them and argued that recent urban policies have been limited in scope and effort, and proposed new initiatives in family policy and community development as policy options for the next administration.
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The Politics of Community Economic Development
TL;DR: The Green Amendment as mentioned in this paper allows mayors to get control of their cities' anti-poverty programs, and the new arrangement enabled the government to withdraw funding from neighborhood organizations which confronted city power and to begin to fund antipoverty programs within a pro-city framework.