Community Development Block Grant: New Federalism in the 70's, to Uncertainty in the 80's; City of Flint, a Case Study

Community Development Block Grant;Flint;Michigan;Flint Neighborhood Improvement and Preservation Project;fund allocation;Public Administration

Ragsdale, Jerry G.Flint ;

University of Michigan

关键词: Community Development Block Grant;    Flint;    Michigan;    Flint Neighborhood Improvement and Preservation Project;    fund allocation;    Public Administration;   

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【 摘 要 】

The Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Program, authorized under Title I of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, as amended, provided a challenge to local communities to develop community development programs that would primarily benefit low-and-moderate-income persons in the decaying inner city. Because industrialized communities could not afford to provide scarce local dollars to improve declining neighborhoods, the CDBG Program attempted to take up this void. As the CDBG Program matured, entitlement cities entered an era of uncertainty. Research into the successes, failures, and declining support of the CDGB Program, especially during the Reagan Administration, has given local communities reason to believe that the CDBG Program may be eliminated — leaving, like many other programs for the poor, the priorities of the CDBG Program to compete for funding from state and local tax dollars. The Focus of this paper will be on the review of the CDBG Entitlement Program through discussion of legislative history, research, evaluation, and a case study involving implementation of the CDGB Program and fund allocation in Flint, Michigan. The case study will pay particular attention to implementation of a housing rehabilitation program through the creation of the Flint neighborhood Improvement and Preservation Project, Inc. (Flint HIPP, Inc.), a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, established as the result of a Mayor;;s Task Force on Housing.