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Welfare Reform and Neighborhoods: Race and Civic Participation

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  • James Jennings

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Welfare reform is weakening the social and institutional fabric of neighborhoods with relatively high levels of poverty and is, therefore, antiurban and antineighborhood policy. This article is based on an in-depth study of three Massachusetts communities that finds that welfare reform is increasing regulatory and service demand pressures in inner-city neighborhoods, thereby altering the mission, organizational capacities, and planning activities of community-based organizations. These findings support recent research that examines the problematic connections between welfare reform and race, neighborhood development, and civic participation. The emerging lesson is that the building of civic consciousness and the strengthening of institutional capacities to pursue community and economic development are ignored in the push of welfare reforms to change individual behavior. Neighborhood revitalization initiatives, as well as the call for increasing citizen participation and self-help strategies, are similarly being weakened or ignored.

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  • James Jennings, 2001. "Welfare Reform and Neighborhoods: Race and Civic Participation," The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, , vol. 577(1), pages 94-106, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:anname:v:577:y:2001:i:1:p:94-106
    DOI: 10.1177/000271620157700108
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