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Community Development: Salvation or Suicide?

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Ravitz, Mel – Social Policy, 1988

Examines the effect of community development projects on Detroit (Michigan) over the past decade. Concludes that community development has failed to increase the number of jobs available and has contributed to neighborhood deterioration. (FMW)

Descriptors: Community Benefits, Community Change, Community Development, Economic Development

Neighborhood Development: Issues and Models.

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Lenz, Thomas J. – Social Policy, 1988

Argues that Neighborhood Development Organization (NDO) staffs and volunteers have a faulty understanding of the political economies of poor urban communities, and have adopted a free market orientation. Recommends an alternative "organizing-driven" model of community development. (FMW)

Descriptors: Business Responsibility, Community Action, Community Development, Economic Development