Fusing Technical and Political Rationality in Community Development: A Prescriptive Model of Efficiency-Based Strategic Geographic Targeting

Accordino, John; Fasulo, Fabrizio

doi:10.1080/10511482.2013.814070

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“… 28. This recommendation echoes that advanced earlier by the US Government Accounting (now: Accountability) Office 2005 and numerous scholars: Thomson (2008, 2011), Accordino and Fasulo (2013), Wilson and Kashem (2017). …”

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Nonlinear and Threshold Effects Related to Neighborhood: Implications for Planning and Policy

Galster

2018

Journal of Planning Literature

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Nonlinear and threshold relationships are commonly manifested in neighborhoods, both relating to effects of neighborhoods on residents and causes of neighborhood changes arising from individual mobility and housing investment decisions. These relationships are generated by amalgam of often reinforcing processes related to socialization, gaming, tolerance, contagion, and tolerance. The existence of nonlinear and threshold effects holds powerful implications for planners. Scarce public investment resources must be spatially concentrated, so that they exceed property owners’ reinvestment thresholds. Poverty deconcentration strategies must seek to replace neighborhoods exceeding 40 percent poverty rates with those that have low (less than 15 percent) poverty rates.

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Nonlinear and Threshold Effects Related to Neighborhood: Implications for Planning and Policy

Galster

2018

Journal of Planning Literature

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“…Organizational characteristics CDC success has been linked to a high level of sophistication in packaging financing from multiple sources and savvy in dealing with other neighbourhood organizations, local government, and financial intermediaries (Accordino and Fasulo, 2013) as well as a clear focus and sense of purpose (Cowan et al, 1999, p. 338). Cowan et al's 1999 study is one of the few empirical analyses of factors influencing success of CDCs.…”

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The potential of community entrepreneurship for neighbourhood revitalization in the United Kingdom and the United States

Varady¹,

Kleinhans²,

Ham³

2017

Entrepreneurial Neighbourhoods

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Purpose -The global economic crisis has had a major impact on government spending for urban regeneration. In the context of these austerity regimes, in many European countries, community entrepreneurship and active citizenship are increasingly considered as a means to continue small-scale urban revitalisation. This paper investigates recent literature on both British community enterprises (CEs) and American community development corporations (CDCs). The aim is to assess the current potential of community entrepreneurship in neighbourhood revitalization in the United States and the United Kingdom. Design/methodology/approach -Starting from a seminal article, this paper reviews literature focusing on the role of CEs and CDCs in neighbourhood revitalization. Differences and similarities are analysed, taking into account national context differences. Findings -While CDCs have a relatively successful record in affordable housing production in distressed areas, CDCs are fundamentally limited in terms of reversing processes of community decline. CEs in the UK have focused on non-housing issues. Research limitations/implications -This paper asks the question what CEs can learn fromCDCs in terms of scope, aims, strategies, accountability, assets and partnerships with public and private actors. However, a systematic literature review has not been conducted. Originality/value -Our comparison reveals similarities but also differences with regard to aims, organizational characteristics, co-operation on multiple scales, and community participation. Apart from lessons that can be learned, we provide recommendations for further research that should cover the lack of empirical evidence in this field.

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“…To maximise the impact of limited financial resources, targeting investments in a limited number of legacy city neighbourhoods by capitalising on assets and amenities has risen in popularity (Thomson, 2008(Thomson, , 2012. Research shows that targeting stabilises housing markets, attracts private investment, raises the stature of neighbourhoods, facilitates spillover effects and realises economies of scale (Accordino and Fasulo, 2013;Galster et al, 2006;Thomson, 2008).…”

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Historic preservation in declining city neighbourhoods: Analysing rehabilitation tax credit investments in six US cities

Ryberg-Webster

Kinahan

2016

Urban Studies

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Historic preservation is common practice across the world, including in US cities. At the same time, population decline, economic distress and vacancy prevalent in declining cities, also known as legacy, shrinking or post-industrial cities, creates a pressing threat to a vast array of urban historic buildings. In the USA, recent planning and policy emphasises strategic demolition and/or targeting resources in potentially viable neighbourhoods, with little attention paid to historic preservation. To fill this gap, we use a comparative case study of federal historic rehabilitation tax credit (RTC) investments from 2000 to 2010 across the neighbourhoods of six legacy cities: Baltimore, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Providence, Richmond and St. Louis. This is the first study to use disaggregated, longitudinal RTC data to analyse investment at the neighbourhood scale. We use the Hirschman-Herfindahl Index to evaluate investment concentration and US Census 2000 data to characterise neighbourhoods where developers chose to undertake RTC projects. The findings show that RTC investments occurred across a wide range of places, including very lowand low-income neighbourhoods, and produced both market-rate and affordable housing across each city's neighbourhoods. The findings indicate that preservation occurs across a wide range of legacy city neighbourhoods and inform urban planners and policymakers about locations where the private sector is willing to invest with favourable financing.

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Fusing Technical and Political Rationality in Community Development: A Prescriptive Model of Efficiency-Based Strategic Geographic Targeting

Cited by 10 publications

References 23 publications

Nonlinear and Threshold Effects Related to Neighborhood: Implications for Planning and Policy

Nonlinear and Threshold Effects Related to Neighborhood: Implications for Planning and Policy

The potential of community entrepreneurship for neighbourhood revitalization in the United Kingdom and the United States

Historic preservation in declining city neighbourhoods: Analysing rehabilitation tax credit investments in six US cities

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