Week 7 (2/25) – Community development policy (PP&C)
This page hosts the two courses that comprise the WCSC Seminar: (1) CCSSC 387 The Urban Landscape: Race, Space, and Inequality; AND (2) SOC 375 People, Place, and Community: The Politics and Practice of Community Development. Outcomes, assignments, and expectations for each course are separately identified, although the coursework is interspersed and intended to function as an integrated learning experience.
Section outline
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Who pays for community development in places with inadequate resources? Whose responsibility is this?
Read:
von Hoffman, A. (2012). The past, present, and future of community development in the United States. In N. O. Andrews & D. J. Erickson (Eds.), Investing in what works for America’s communities: Essays on people, place, and purpose (pp. 10–54). San Francisco, CA: Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and Low Income Investment Fund.
Field journal PPC-3: If you had unlimited funds to work with, what changes would you most prioritize in the Brookland neighborhood, or some other part of the city? Take some photographs or record audio or video that support your characterization of this need for change. Now imagine you don’t have unlimited funds, but still want to see this change realized. What strategies would be most appropriate (e.g., organizing neighbors, writing a grant to convince a private philanthropy to give, policies that sweeten the deal for private investment, etc.)? Referencing the von Hoffman reading, when in the past hundred years have these strategies been used?