Decentralizing Community Development Decisions
A Study of Oklahoma's Small Cities Program
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13783106 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sheilah S Watson (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1992 |
| Publication date | 1992-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Publius The Journal of Federalism (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0048-5950 • E-ISSN: 1747-7107 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/oxfordjournals.pubjof.a037983 |
| OpenAlex | W4229730104 |
| Language | EN |
Decentralization of the CDBG Small Cities program in 1981 gave states great latitude in deciding how to allocate grant funds. Consequently, scholars expressed concern that, understate control, fewer CDBG funds would be expended for low- and moderate-income benefits via housing rehabilitation. Research on the Small Cities program in Oklahoma indicates a definite shift in spending priorities. Since 1982, Oklahoma localities diverted CDBG funds primarily to infrastructure andeconomic development instead of housing-related activities, and channeled a larger amount of dollars into moderate- and median-income areas. As a result, the Small Cities program in Oklahoma, under state control, was found to provide less direct and immediate housing aid to lower income citizens
Business · Control (management · Decentralization · Demographic economics · Economic growth · Economics · Low income · Low income housing · State (computer science · Computer Science · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth · Housing Market and Economics · Local Government Finance and Decentralization · Finance
| Highly cited | No |
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