Author: Allen HerzogPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Evaluating the Impact of the Neighborhood Improvement Program
Author: Allen HerzogEvaluation, Neighborhood Improvement Program
Author: Claude Harold BrownPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Community development
Languages : en
Pages :
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Housing and Neighborhood Dynamics
Author: John F. KainPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674409309
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
This book assesses the effects of spatially concentrated programs for housing and neighborhood improvement. These programs provide direct assistance to low-income property owners in an attempt to arrest neighborhood decline and encourage revitalization. The authors used the Harvard Urban Development Simulation Model (HUDS) in evaluating these programs. HUDS, a large-scale computer model, represents the process of housing rehabilitation, the production and consumption of housing services, household moving decisions, and other determinant of neighborhood change. The model simulates the behavior of approximately 80,000 individual households in two hundred residential neighborhoods of various quality levels. Unlike more aggregate models of urban development, HUDS has the capacity to identify how specific housing policies affect individual households as well as particular neighborhoods. Since program evaluations are no better than the models on which they are based, the authors provide sufficient detail to permit those readers primarily interested in the policy analysis to assess the methodology and to understandhow the policies are represented in the model; a more technical discussion of the model is then presented in appendixes. Although the simulations focus on policies that induce central-city property owners to upgrade their properties and thus stimulate revitalization, many of the authors' findings are relevant to larger issues of urban development. For example, the analysis of how housing rehabilitation subsidies affect the investment behavior of nonsubsidized property owners provides insights about the link between initial upgrading and sustained neighborhood improvement. The analysis also demonstrates how differences in location, household, and housing stock characteristics affect a particular neighborhood's responsiveness to a common policy initiative.
Preliminary Report
Author: Claude Harold BrownPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : City dwellers
Languages : en
Pages : 178
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An Evaluation of the Neighborhood Development Demonstration
Author: Pratt Institute. Center for Community and Environmental DevelopmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Community development, Urban
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
The Evaluation of the Neighborhood Stabilization Program
Author: Katherine M. O'ReganPublisher:
ISBN: 9781457868207
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
The Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP), which built on Community Development Block Grant concepts, was part of a package of U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) programs adopted to deal with the consequences of the housing market collapse. NSP had three rounds of funding, all directed toward assisting communities as they addressed the neighborhood effects of the wave of foreclosures that followed the end of the housing boom. The principal concern was that the foreclosures had a contagion effect, depressing the value and maintenance of surrounding properties and intensifying the crisis at the neighborhood level. This analysis focused on the second round (NSP2). It found that NSP2 was too modestly funded to consistently arrest the declines in property values or achieve the impacts that were hoped for. Figures. This is a print on demand report.
Improving Health in the Community
Author: Institute of MedicinePublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309055342
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 497
Book Description
How do communities protect and improve the health of their populations? Health care is part of the answer but so are environmental protections, social and educational services, adequate nutrition, and a host of other activities. With concern over funding constraints, making sure such activities are efficient and effective is becoming a high priority. Improving Health in the Community explains how population-based performance monitoring programs can help communities point their efforts in the right direction. Within a broad definition of community health, the committee addresses factors surrounding the implementation of performance monitoring and explores the "why" and "how to" of establishing mechanisms to monitor the performance of those who can influence community health. The book offers a policy framework, applies a multidimensional model of the determinants of health, and provides sets of prototype performance indicators for specific health issues. Improving Health in the Community presents an attainable vision of a process that can achieve community-wide health benefits.
Some Impacts of Neighborhood Improvement Programs
Author: John F. KainPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Community development, Urban
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Neighborhood Development Program, Project Selection
Author: Evaluating the Benefits of Neighborhood Change
Author: Timothy J. BartikPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Housing
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description