Rebuilding the Inner City: A History of Neighborhood Initiatives to Address Poverty in the United States

Rebuilding the Inner City: A History of Neighborhood Initiatives to Address Poverty in the United States
ISBN-10
0231081154
ISBN-13
9780231081153
Category
Business & Economics
Pages
257
Language
English
Published
1995
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Author
Robert Halpern

Description

Neighborhood-based initiatives -ranging from settlement houses in the nineteenth century to the Community Action and Model Cities program of the Great Society to the Empowerment and Enterprise Zones of the 1990s -have been called on to help solve a variety of poverty-related problems. This book examines the history of these initiatives.

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