Ron Haskins states that the strategy of combining personal responsibility with community and government support could help millions of residents of some of the nation's worst neighborhoods - and simultaneously demonstrate to a skeptical public that a new war on poverty can be won.

via Brookings Institution

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Two related Obama Adminstration neighborhood strategies to improve living conditions in the inner city and to boost the development of poor children:

1. HUD's Choice Neighborhoods (an expansion of the HOPE VI Program)
2. The Dept. of Education's Promise Neighborhoods modeled after Geoffrey Canada's Harlem Children's Zone (see Video below)