The notion of community capacity building is both explicit and pervasive in the rhetoric,
missions, and activities of a broad range of contemporary community development efforts …

Social capital has many faces in the geography of urban opportunity, and as such, particular
housing policies might have positive effects on some forms of social capital and negative …

The persistent failure of public schooling in low-income communities constitutes one of our
nation's most pressing civil rights and social justice issues. Many school reformers recognize …

Background/Context Parent involvement in education is widely recognized as important, yet
it remains weak in many communities. One important reason for this weakness is that urban …

In this article, Mark R. Warren argues that if urban school reform in the United States is to be
successful, it must be linked to the revitalization of the communities around our schools …

The concept of social exclusion has been a central focus of government policy for the past
ten years and is now at the core of much practitioner activity. Thoroughly updated, this much …

This paper examines a form of state social provision that has been neglected by current
sociological theory: publicly funded supportive services. Federal policies of privatization and …

This article examines the theoretical foundations upon which the rationale for mixed-income
development as a strategy to confront urban poverty is built. The authors focus on four …

Arguing against those who say that our communities are powerless in the face of footloose
corporations, DeFilippis considers what localities can do in the face of heightened capital …

This review takes Rebuilding Communities as a starting point to survey the community
development literature, the community development field, and external environmental …