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Fusing Technical and Political Rationality in Community Development: A Prescriptive Model of Efficiency-Based Strategic Geographic Targeting

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  • John Accordino
  • Fabrizio Fasulo

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Recognizing the challenges and shortcomings of community-based development to date, funders are increasingly requiring communities to target revitalization resources to achieve greater impact. Studies of one type of targeting approach-efficiency-based strategic geographic targeting-have demonstrated that it can restabilize a neighborhood's housing market, making it possible to remove revitalization resources and direct them to other neighborhoods. However, communities are still reluctant to use this approach. Analysis of several case studies of efficiency-based targeting efforts reveals the barriers to political stakeholder alignment around this type of resource targeting and suggests technical program features that may create the basis for stakeholder alignment. Using these findings, we propose a prescriptive model of efficiency-based strategic geographic targeting that funders might use to encourage this fusion of technical and political rationality.

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  • John Accordino & Fabrizio Fasulo, 2013. "Fusing Technical and Political Rationality in Community Development: A Prescriptive Model of Efficiency-Based Strategic Geographic Targeting," Housing Policy Debate, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 23(4), pages 615-642, October.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:houspd:v:23:y:2013:i:4:p:615-642
    DOI: 10.1080/10511482.2013.814070
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    1. Varady, David P. & Kleinhans, Reinout & van Ham, Maarten, 2015. "Community Entrepreneurship in Deprived Neighbourhoods: Comparing UK Community Enterprises with US Community Development Corporations," IZA Discussion Papers 8777, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    2. Stephanie Ryberg-Webster & Kelly L Kinahan, 2017. "Historic preservation in declining city neighbourhoods: Analysing rehabilitation tax credit investments in six US cities," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 54(7), pages 1673-1691, May.

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