Community Development

Challenges Face Comprehensive Approaches to Address Needs of Distressed Neighborhoods Gao ID: T-RCED-95-262 August 3, 1995

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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