TOWARD A JUST METROPOLIS: From Crises to Possibilities

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

Full Story: Family Matters

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)