Community Development: Current Issues and Emerging Challenges

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2004

Publication Title

Journal of Urban Affairs

Keywords

community development corporations, history, inner city neighborhoods, older suburbs

Abstract

This introduction puts the research and commentaries into context in three ways. First, it briefly summarizes the history and current state of the CDC [Community Development Corporation] movement and positions the work of CDCs within the rubric of major interventions targeted to poor communities. Second, it describes the current economic and public policy context for community development with an emphasis on the critical influence of the national economy and federal policies and programs. Finally, it identifies some major current issues and developments that could not be included as the subject of full articles but that will, nevertheless, affect the evolution of community development in the coming years.

Comments

W. Dennis Keating and Avis C. Vidal are co-editors of the New Perspectives in Community Development, the special Issue of the Journal of Urban Affairs containing this article.

Volume

26

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