Human capital investment for central city revitalization / [edited by] Fritz W. Wagner, Timothy E. Joder, Anthony J. Mumphrey, Jr.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wagner, Fritz W.

Joder, Timothy E.

Mumphrey, Anthony J.

Series:

Contemporary urban affairs series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human capital.

Urban poor.

Urban renewal.

Physical Description:

xiii, 146 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2003.

Summary:

Human Capital Investment for Central City Revitalization shows that a major weakness of urban revitalization programs is their failure to develop human capital. Typically, analyses of urban revitalization have focused on reviving and attracting business to center cities. This book, the product of a three-year study conducted by the National Center for the Revitalization of Central Cities, focuses instead on ways in which poor people can be helped to improve their own situations. Investing in human capital, the contributors argue, will help alter the structures that perpetuate poverty. New revitalization efforts therefore should be based around improving people's capacities. Strategies include upgrading education and school-linked services, enhancing tenant-based housing management programs, and fostering community reinvestment agreements. Through case studies of the center cities of Detroit, Baltimore, New Orleans, and Kansas City, MO, Human Capital Investment for Central City Revitalization shows that empowering city residents will improve their living conditions and, more generally, the central city itself.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Human Capital Investment / Robert W. Becker, Robert A. Collins 1

Chapter 2 The Detroit Empowerment Zone's Effect on Economic Opportunity: Employers' Responses to the Zone's Programs and Incentives / Margaret Dewar 12

Chapter 3 Building Communities, Building Coalitions: Initiatives for Urban Education / Kathryn Doherty, Cheryl Jones, Clarence Stone 42

Chapter 4 Tenant Organizing in Public Housing: A Case Study of Kansas City, Missouri, and New Orleans, Louisiana / Robert O. Washington, Robert K. Whelan 78

Chapter 5 The Impact of Community-Reinvestment Agreements on Mortgage Lending to Minority and Low-Income Households and Neighborhoods / Alex Schwartz 100

Chapter 6 Conclusion: Human Capital Investment and Central City Revitalization / Fritz Wagner, Timothy Joder, Anthony J. Mumphrey Jr., Louis Crust 134.

Notes:

A companion work to Managing capital resources for central city revitalization.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0815332122

OCLC:

51172240