The wording of the NRP legislation was too vague. The County does not want to see county funds end up in city departments. It also hopes that NRP will create jobs and decrease the need for social services. Legal constraints on the use of NRP funds and restrictions and regulations on how agencies operate may mean that neighborhood decisions are over-ridden when it is time to develop the contracts. CDCs and neighborhood housing services are expanding their areas of service to assist in the implementation of neighborhood housing plans.
Local banks are also involved.
Working with the MCDA may feel like a loss of neighborhood control. Changes in legislation could decrease need for legal interpretation and provide clearer understandings for neighborhood planning. Partnerships Some of the plans call for extensive partnerships with non-profits and businesses in the community. In some neighborhoods there are new relationships emerging from the planning process but in other cases these relationships were pre-existing. Some neighborhoods have productive new relationships with other neighborhoods but in others the neighborhoods have not been able to forge the relationships necessary to address shared concerns such as commercial corridors.