An Update of Building Sustainable Communities: Profile of Three Communities (2009)
Date Published: 09/25/2009
Author: Tony Proscio and LISC
Building Sustainable Communities: A progress report on meeting LISC's next generation of challenges and fulfilling the promise of community development
From half a century of progress in community development, this much is clear: Organizations representing the residents of distressed neighborhoods and rural areas can reverse the decline of their communities, build more attractive and stable environments, and preserve a diversity of incomes and households — provided they have sufficient capital, technical expertise, and political will to support them. Hundreds of successful community development organizations across the country stand in testimony to this conclusion, and their continued accomplishment enlarges the evidence year by year. LISC, approaching the start of its fourth decade, remains the nation’s preeminent vehicle for delivering financial and technical resources to these organizations, and for helping to expand the scope and promise of the work they do. Continued[+]..
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