These people deserve our grati- tucle and praise. At the same time, achieving lasting progress in communities that have multiple problems can be a daunting challenge. Housing in the same neighborhoods is often old and difficult to maintain. Informal neighborhood social ties and the capacity for collective problem solving are undercleveloped. Even for people with jobs, earnings are often meager.
Political participation is weak, voter turn- out is low.
Communities where all these conditions coex- ist are in danger of becoming more and more isolated from the mainstream of society. Measures to counteract this possibility should be . . . . . It addresses urban problems from the perspective of a broadly conceived vision for community development. The neighborhood should be influential in local political affairs, and it should garner its fair share of public goods and services from all levels of government. Local schools should educate children well and also serve as places where parents and other citizens come together for community affairs.