Renewal in a working-class black neighborhood

Article Abstract:

The progress of community development corporations (CDCs) in renewing the physical and social environments in urban, particularly working class black neighborhoods is assessed. CDCs in South Jamaica, Queens, one of New York's oldest working class neighborhoods are documented, amidst physical and social distress. Work of South Jamaica's CDCs are in the areas of low/moderate income ownership, income upgrading, and middle class housing development. CDCs attempt to restore the social community by rebuilding the physical community.

Social aspects, New York, New York, Community development corporations

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Latino neighborhoods and Latino neighborhood poverty

Article Abstract:

Data from the 1980 and 1990 Population Censuses were used to develop a socioeconomic profile of Latino neighborhoods and to examine the causes of poverty in these neighborhoods. The findings revealed that Latino residents of Latino neighborhoods ranked lower in nearly all measures of economic distress than Latinos in non-Latino communities. The worsening poverty rate in Latino neighborhoods between 1979 and 1989 was attributed to changes in the payoffs of the factors that affect poverty.

Economic aspects, Causes of, Poverty, Neighborhood, Neighborhoods, Hispanic Americans

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