Community Development: Challenges Face Comprehensive Approaches to
Address Needs of Distressed Neighborhoods (Testimony, 08/03/95,
GAO/T-RCED-95-262).

This testimony is based on GAO's February 1995 report
(GAO/RCED/HEHS-95-69) on community groups that are using a
multifaceted--or comprehensive--approach that relies on residents'
participation to address housing, economic, and social service needs in
distressed neighborhoods.  Comprehensive efforts often arise from
residents' frustration over neighborhood conditions and the
dissatisfaction of service providers with the results of more limited
approaches.  GAO examines (1) why community development experts and
practitioners advocate this approach, (2) what challenges they see to
its implementation, and (3) how the federal government might support
comprehensive approaches.

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 REPORTNUM:  T-RCED-95-262
     TITLE:  Community Development: Challenges Face Comprehensive 
             Approaches to Address Needs of Distressed Neighborhoods
      DATE:  08/03/95
   SUBJECT:  Community development programs
             Economic development
             Housing programs
             Public assistance programs
             Interagency relations
             Federal aid to localities
             Declining neighborhoods
             Non-profit organizations
             Proposed legislation
IDENTIFIER:  Detroit (MI)
             District of Columbia
             Pasadena (CA)
             HUD Empowerment Zones and Enterprise Communities Program
             Boston (MA)
             Local Empowerment and Flexibility Act of 1995
             
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