Renewing Hope Within Neighborhoods of Despair
Subtitle: The Community-Based Development Model (Suny Series on Urban Public Policy.)
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: May 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780791445549
Subjects: Sociology, Social Studies; United States; Politics / Current Events; Inner cities; Political Science; Sociology - Urban; Sociology; Public Policy - City Planning & Urban Dev.; Economic development projects; Public Policy - Regional Planning; Community development, Urban; Community organization
Description: "Renewing Hope builds upon narratives provided by leaders of community-based development organizations (CBDOs) to describe how they bring about affordable, quality housing, commercial opportunities, and employment within poor areas. The book illustrates both the obstacles CBDOs face and how these obstacles are overcome, in part by leveraging resources for social change projects from foundations, government and intermediaries.

Guiding the effort of the developmental activists is an organic theory that explains what can and should be accomplished. The material extends new institutionalism models of inter-organizational behavior."--BOOK JACKET.