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America’s efforts to improve living conditions for the urban poor reached a low ebb in the 1980s, while a troublesome economy and federal aid cutbacks helped drive up the number of poor people for the first time in more than a decade. One indicator of new poverty was the reappearance of homeless people on the streets of American cities for the first time since the Great Depression. Federal interest in community development programs for poor neighborhoods, however, sank to a minimum level during the Reagan administration.
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Frieden, B.J., Kaplan, M. (1990). Rethinking Neighborhood Strategies. In: Carmon, N. (eds) Neighbourhood Policy and Programmes. Policy Studies Organization Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21057-2_13
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