Unemployment prevention: restoring public housing's "transitional resource" role
Article Abstract:
Many public housing developments, long crowded with poor, low-income families, have become magnets for the ills afflicting the urban poor. As a result, many public housing youth are growing up within disadvantaged environments that only serve to perpetuate the entrenched social barriers to economic mobility. The Cambridge (MA) Housing Authority has tackled this problem by offering an innovative youth unemployment prevention program within its public housing developments. Known as 'The Work Force' initiative, the program aims to provide positive adult role models to adolescents living within troubled inner-city housing developments. The program aims to instil the self-esteem and motivation necessary to encourage the youth to acquire the skills needed for employment, thereby making it easier for them to break the cycle of poverty and dependency prevalent in public housing developments.
Publication Name: Journal of Housing
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0272-7374
Year: 1991
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More than just housing
Article Abstract:
The Santa Cruz County Housing Authority has proven that the role of housing authorities need not be limited to that of housing assistance providers. They can also become active participants in community development. After the Loma Prieta earthquake damaged many areas in the County in 1989, the Housing Authority was heavily involved in planning for meeting the needs of affected residents. It acted as the processor of disaster loans funded by the State of California, managed for the American Red Cross a $2.5 million fund for disaster recovery and chaired the Earthquake Housing Task Force. As part of its regular programs, the Housing Authority tries to find housing for the homeless, the mentally ill, the elderly and the low-income family.
Publication Name: Journal of Housing
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0272-7374
Year: 1992
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