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Peer reviewedBolland, John M.; McCallum, Debra Moehle – Urban Affairs Review, 2002
Interviewed 257 impoverished, urban public housing residents regarding how empowerment, sense of community, and neighboring behavior affected the likelihood of their engaging in discussion about community issues directly affecting their lives and the lives of their neighbors. Overall, sense of community and neighboring behaviors predicted…
Descriptors: Community Development, Community Needs, Community Problems, Empowerment
Download full textHaynes, Kingsley E.; And Others – 1977
The Lower Rio Grande Valley of South Texas consists of three counties: Cameron, Hidalgo, and Willacy. Poverty pervades in the Valley, especially in the colonias ("a poor, rural unincorporated community with 20 or more dwelling units, where home ownership is the rule"). Colonia residents are almost exclusively Mexican Americans.…
Descriptors: Community Characteristics, Community Development, Community Problems, Demography
Fitchen, Janet M. – Human Services in the Rural Environment, 1987
The decline of agriculture in the 1920s and 1930s was compounded by the subsequent collapse of the rural social community, leaving the rural poor without a community and thus exacerbating and prolonging their poverty. Present restructuring of agriculture in the United States may have a similar impact on rural communities. (JHZ)
Descriptors: Agribusiness, Agricultural Trends, Community Change, Community Development
