新作坊

State use of community-based organizations to advance urban revitalization policy: the case of the front porch florida initiative

摘要：

Community economic development is premised on the notion that community stakeholders are more attuned to neighborhood and community issues and are therefore better situated to develop solutions to those issues. The Front Porch Florida Initiative was designed to empower organizations and citizens with tools needed to revitalize neighborhoods. The Front Porch Florida Initiative is part of Florida's overall urban revitalization strategy. This paper examines how a single state uses community-based organizations to lead the charge in revitalizing urban areas. It explores community economic development through the lenses of market and government failures and places Front Porch Initiative into these contexts. The initiative minimizes these failures through a variety of services and activities. The failure theories provide a framework for understanding the roles that community-based organizations play in community economic development in response to need gaps created from the lack government and market intervention.