Neighborhood initiative and the regional economy

Economic Development Quarterly

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 3-10

  Nowak, Jeremy ^a  

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EID: 0031539928     PISSN: 08912424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/089124249701100101     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. Probably the most comprehensive review of the efforts of local community development corporations can be found in Avis C. Vidal, Rebuilding Communities: A National Study of Urban Community Development Corporations (New York: Community Development Research Center, 1992).
2. The issue of the spatial mismatch between residence and opportunity involves an extensive literature in economics, demography, sociology, and geography. Some of the issues related to low-income housing location and the "geography of opportunity" can be found in a recent issue of the journal Housing Policy Debate (vol. 6, no. 1 [1995]). A particularly good analysis of the problem can be found in Douglas S. Massey, "American Apartheid: Segregation and Making of the Underclass," American Journal of Sociology 96 (1990): 329-57.
3. The issue of the spatial mismatch between residence and opportunity involves an extensive literature in economics, demography, sociology, and geography. Some of the issues related to low-income housing location and the "geography of opportunity" can be found in a recent issue of the journal Housing Policy Debate (vol. 6, no. 1 [1995]). A particularly good analysis of the problem can be found in Douglas S. Massey, "American Apartheid: Segregation and Making of the Underclass," American Journal of Sociology 96 (1990): 329-57.
4. Robert Halpern, Rebuilding the Inner City (New York: Columbia University Press, 1995).
5. Craig R. McCoy, Lea Sitton, and Thomas Ferrick, Jr., "Vital Signs," The Philadelphia Inquirer, September 24-28, 1995.
6. Joel Garreau, Edge City (New York: Doubleday, 1991).
7. Mark Alan Hughes, Over the Horizon: Jobs in the Suburbs of Major Metropolitan Areas (Philadelphia: Public/Private Ventures, 1993).
8. Public and Assisted Housing in the Delaware Valley (Philadelphia: Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission, November 1995).
9. Solutions for Affordable Rental Housing in the Delaware Valley (Philadelphia: Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission, August 1994).
10. Delaware Valley Rental Housing Assessment (Philadelphia: Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission, 1993).
11. Private Industry Council data, reported in Theodore Hersberg, Regional Labor Force (Philadelphia: Center for Greater Philadelphia, 1990).
12. The issue of regionalizing public housing location is getting renewed legal and policy attention, particularly in Texas and Maryland. For the results of the Chicago demonstration program (Gautreaux), see James Rosenbaum, "Changing the Geography of Opportunity by Expanding Residential Choice: Lessons from the Gautreaux Program," Housing Policy Debate 6, no. 1 (1995): 231-69.
13. The term workforce intermediary was coined in the Austin Neighborhood Initiative sponsored by ShoreBank, a Chicago-based community development bank.
14. Planning data on the neighborhood can be found in The Neighborhood Investment Action Plan, developed by the Ogontz Avenue Revitalization Corporation and the Community Development Institute (Philadelphia: Ogontz Avenue Revitalization Corporation, 1995).
15. The Annie E. Casey Jobs Initiative is a six-city, seven-year project designed to link targeted inner-city residents with regional job opportunities. In the Philadelphia site, the Delaware Valley Community Reinvestment Fund is the regional manager for the initiative, and the Ogontz Avenue Revitalization Corporation is the community-based association responsible for recruiting and assessing local labor. The project is sponsored by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, located in Baltimore.
16. Greater Philadelphia First Corporation, An Economic Development Strategy for the Greater Philadelphia Region, Philadelphia (Philadelphia: Greater Philadelphia First Corporation, 1995).
17. Pennsylvania Economy League, Creating a Learning Community: Improving the Growth of Small Business and Employers in West Oak Lane / Ogontz (Philadelphia: Pennsylvania Economy League, 1996).