Social Targeting in Community Development
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4878133 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Paul R Dommel (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1980 |
| Volume | 95 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 465-478 |
| Publication date | 1980-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Political Science Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0032-3195 • E-ISSN: 1538-165X |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2150060 |
| OpenAlex | W2329406295 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
In 1974 Congress enacted the Housing and Community Development Act establishing a block-grant program which consolidated seven discretionary grant programs for urban areas into a single program with the bulk of the funds distributed through a formula system. This community development block grant (CDBG) program was authorized for three years and subsequently extended for three years; the program is again up for renewal in 1980. Since the beginning of the program, the Brookings Institution has been monitoring the process and programmatic effects of the block grant in sixty-one jurisdictions. The findings of the first year of the program were reported in an earlier article.' A second article analyzed federal-local relations over a two-year period.2 This article examines the distribution of program benefits to lower-income groups over the first four years of the program. One of the most controversial issues of the CDBG program concerns social targeting, that is, the distribution of program benefits among income groups. Social-targeting provisions appear in two portions of the 1974 Housing and Community Development Act. Section 104(b)(2) requires that participating jurisdictions give maximum feasible priority to activities which will benefit lowand moderate-income families or aid in the prevention of slums and blight. Section 101(c) mandates that projects benefit principally persons of
Economic growth · Economics · Political science · Social change · Law · Public Administration · Urban and Rural Development Challenges · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.12 |
| Citation span | 1983 - 2013 (31) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |