CBO performance in the shelter sector: A study of La Pina and Lebron, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

Article Abstract:

The role of the government and community-based organizations (CBOs) in the housing sector is examined and their interaction analyzed by studying shelter for poor in the Santo Domingo, the Dominican Republic. It is shown that the enabling approach can be effective if the government is supportive and CBOs are engaged in the planning, decision-making and implementation of the housing project since cooperation between NGO, CBOs and households is crucial for the success o the housing project.

Services information, Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Development, Housing & Community Development, Individual and family services, Other Individual and Family Services, Dominican Republic, Neighborhood Social Centers, Services, Housing development, Community centers, Inclusionary housing programs, Community centres

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From Santo Domingo to Indians rookie

Article Abstract:

Manny Ramirez is a 19-year-old immigrant from Dominican Republic who is doing well in baseball and is currently playing for the Appalachian League Burlington Indians. Being young, Ramirez still gets sentimentally homesick especially for Washington Heights, a neighborhood in upper Manhattan where he lived with other Dominican immigrants. Ramirez has just received a contract incentive of $250,000 as the No.1 drat pick.

Achievements and awards, Baseball (Professional), Baseball drafts, Ramirez, Manny

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The world settles in: Washington, DC, as an immigrant gateway

Article Abstract:

A study investigates the ethnic geography of a new immigrant gateway, Washington, DC, using Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) data to map the residential decisions of immigrant newcomers by zip code from 1990 to 1998. Spatially, a very diverse, dispersed, and suburbanized pattern of newcomer settlement emerges, one that contradicts many of the assumptions of the spatial assimilation model.

Washington, Immigrants, Spatial analysis (Statistics)

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