Author : Robert Halpern
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 15,55 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780231081153
Neighborhood-based initiatives -ranging from settlement houses in the nineteenth century to the Community Action and Model Cities program of the Great Society to the Empowerment and Enterprise Zones of the 1990s -have been called on to help solve a variety of poverty-related problems. This book examines the history of these initiatives.