Rebuilding the Inner City: A History of Neighborhood Initiatives to Address Poverty in the United States

Resource Type

Book

Description

"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."--Publisher (barnesandnoble.com)

Ages

All Ages

Age Groups

Adulthood (22+)

Languages

English

ISBN

0231081154

Author

Robert Halpern

Publication

1995 Columbia University Press

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