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Community Development: Salvation or Suicide?

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Ravitz, Mel – Social Policy, 1988

Examines the effect of community development projects on Detroit (Michigan) over the past decade. Concludes that community development has failed to increase the number of jobs available and has contributed to neighborhood deterioration. (FMW)

Descriptors: Community Benefits, Community Change, Community Development, Economic Development

Oakland's Partnership for Change.

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Regal, J.M. – 1967

This monograph is devoted to the first Ford Foundation Gray Area Project in Oakland, California. In 1961, the Foundation granted $2 million for an interagency project whose goals were to: (1) reverse the process of social disorganization, (2) accelerate the integration of newcomers, (3) salvage and improve human resources, (4) preserve a…

Descriptors: Community Action, Community Attitudes, Community Change, Community Development