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The Outcomes and Challenges of Neighbourhood Renewal Programmes in the US: The Case of Housing Related Social Services to Improve Self-Sufficiency

Shinwon Kyung 1 Kim, Hye Seung 2

1서울대학교
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ABSTRACT

For the last three decades urban renewal policy in Korea has put too much emphasis on housing and the physical fabric of neighbourhoods. There has been too little attention paid to the fundamental problems of deprived communities in poor neighbourhoods. To renewing deprived communities, a new approach, which tackles problems of worklessness, crime, poor health and poor education and empowers communities to develop their own solutions, needs to set out. This paper explores neighbourhood renewal programmes in the US, which have made efforts to deal with the complex problems of deprived communities through providing social services to improve their self-sufficiency. These programmes are based on the idea of ‘productive welfare’, which values human capital and individual economic competitiveness. This paper consists of four parts: the first examines the emergence of productive welfare and its impact on neighbourhood renewal policy in the US; the second looks into neighbourhood renewal programmes in the US since 1990 in detail; and the third examines outcomes and challenges of the programmes. The final part suggests some lessons learned from the US experiences, which could be applied into Korea.

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