The CDC model of urban redevelopment: a critique and an alternative

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Community development corporations (CDC) have been used in attempts to rebuild communities victimized by capitalist investment. CDCs have proven to be incapable of stemming community decline because they are severely underfunded. Underperforming neighborhood CDCs are often blamed by elites for redevelopment failure. An alternative model of neighborhood development is thus proposed. The model emphasizes community organizing, community-controlled planning and high-capacity multi-local CDCs held accountable by a firm community organizing process.

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The CDC model of urban development, a reply to Randy Stoecker

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Community development corporations (CDC) are being criticized for their inability to stem the decline of urban neighborhoods and their emphasis on physical development rather than community organizing. Although CDCs have not performed as well as planned, they have fared relatively well considering the political and economic obstacles they continually face. Multineighborhood CDCs are being proposed, but concerned sectors insist that smaller neighborhood-based CDCs are still crucial in development efforts.

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The community development industry system: a case study of politics and institutions in Cleveland, 1967-1997

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Community development corporations (CDCs) are organizations grounded in the workings of urban neighborhoods. Researchers must examine their emergence from a peripheral view to a leading role in community development in the 1990s. CDCs have progressed from neighborhood social movements to neighborhood-based organizations and have merged with local government, corporate philanthropy, and the religious establishment.

Social policy, Ohio, Cleveland, Ohio

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