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Insights into Major Urban Development Action Grant Issues. Report to the Congress.

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Comptroller General of the U.S., Washington, DC. – 1984

Using a case study approach, the General Accounting Office (GAO) reviewed the results of 12 projects funded under the Urban Development Action Grant (UDAG) Program, which provided $3 billion in grants to distressed communities for economic revitalization and neighborhood reclamation projects. GAO found that the projects exceeded investment…

Descriptors: Case Studies, Economic Development, Employment Projections, Federal Programs

Tackling Poverty: Market-Based Policies to Empower the Poor.

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Kemp, Jack – Policy Review, 1990

The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) describes programs to improve poor Americans' access to home ownership and economic opportunity. Discusses the Home Ownership and Opportunity for People Everywhere (HOPE) initiative, enterprise zones, housing opportunity zones, and other tools to eliminate barriers to entrepreneurship, job…

Descriptors: Economic Opportunities, Economically Disadvantaged, Entrepreneurship, Free Enterprise System