Cities and Neighborhoods
Divided They Fall: Hardship in America’s Cities and Suburbs
[PDF]The overall share of residents living in extreme poverty in America’s largest metropolitan areas declined over the 1990s. But disparities in social and economic conditions between cities and surrounding communities are growing, and such inequality is linked to hardship in both central cities and metropolitan regions as a whole. Yet places that have less racial segregation and greater ability to incorporate more of the population growth occurring on their suburban peripheries fare better.
David J. Wright and Lisa Montiel, November 2007
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An Update on Urban Hardship
[PDF]This report tracks changes in the condition of the largest cities in the most-populated metropolitan areas in the U.S. from 1990 to 2000, and reports longer-term results for a group of 55 cities from 1970 to 2000.
Lisa M. Montiel, Richard P. Nathan, and David J. Wright, 2004
Community Development Corporations and Welfare Reform: Linkages, Roles, and Impacts
[PDF]A study of the impacts of welfare reform on community groups operating affordable housing developments in Atlanta, Chicago, Cleveland, Minneapolis, New York, and San Francisco.
David J. Wright, Ingrid Gould, and Michael H. Schill, 2001
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It Takes a Neighborhood: Strategies to Prevent Urban Decline
Examines the Neighborhood Preservation Initiative, a comprehensive community building program in ten neighborhoods from nine mostly mid-sized cities The book shows what was learned through NPI about the value of focusing on working-class neighborhoods, as well as how to think about and structure community building efforts generally. The NPI experience offers lessons about engaging established, networked community organizations in deliberate action-oriented strategies, fueled by flexible funding, and linked to systems of local support.
David J. Wright, The Rockefeller Institute Press, 2001
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New Life at Ground Zero: New York, Home Ownership, and the Future of American Cities
Traces New York City's dramatic comeback in the 1980s and 1990s, focusing on one organization, the New York City Housing Partnership, which helped spark the recovery by building thousands of new homes in the South Bronx and throughout the city. This high stakes gamble was pulled off by a diverse cast of characters —working in the nation's most complex and contentious political environment.
Charles J. Orlebeke, The Rockefeller Institute Press, 1997
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