Inner City Poverty

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This paper examines how the decay and ruin of inner city neighborhoods, together with a deterioration of the quality of life for residents of those neighborhoods, are routine elements of urban life in the United States. It analyzes some of the issues through an effort to link poverty, living conditions and absence of a sense of community as a paradigm for both understanding the problem and developing solutions. The data for the study was collected through the administration of a survey questionnaire to the residents of a relatively small, depressed inner city neighborhood on the near northeast side of Rochester, New York.

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"Over the past three decades, a major program designed to improve community development through local control and participation has been the Community Development Corporation (CDC) effort. Under the auspices of this program, more than 2,000 CDCs have been created. The program has become the premier conduit through which environmental, economic, social, and political problems confronting distressed urban and rural communities in the United States are addressed (Briggs, Mueller, & Sullivan, 1997)."

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