Capacity, Capacity, Capacity: The Challenge of Urban Policy in the Age of Obama

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For a study of the varying organizational and civic capacity of metropolitan areas to address the foreclosure issue, see Swanstrom, Immergluck, and Chapple ().

For an evaluation of the Partnership for Sustainable Communities initiative, see Pendall et al. (). For information on SC2 see: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/07/11/announcing-strong-cities-strong-communities

For background on 24:1 see Swanstrom et al. ().

The 24:1 plan can be viewed at: http://www.beyondhousing.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/24-1-Community-Plan-Final-7-18-11.pdf

The work of 24:1 has been recognized by the White House (). Beyond Housing was invited to Washington, DC on April 12, 2013 to present on the 24:1 Initiative to representatives of the White House Neighborhood Revitalization Initiative, the White House Domestic Policy Council, and a number of federal agencies including HUD, EPA, and the Department of Education.

Calculations by Public Policy Research Center, University of Missouri–St. Louis based on U.S. Census Bureau, Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics, 2009.

What partly determines regional civic capacity is a legacy of wealth in the form of large community foundations that invest over a sustained time in community civic infrastructure (see Lowe ). Civic capacity also depends on whether national intermediaries, such as LISC and Enterprise, or national foundations, such as MacArthur and Living Cities, choose to invest in your region.

Weir cites Allard () on the latter point. See also Allard and Roth ().

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Todd Swanstrom

The Des Lee Professor of Community Collaboration and Public Policy Administration at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, Todd Swanstrom has a Master’s degree from Washington University and Ph.D. from Princeton. The third edition of his award-winning Place Matters: Metropolitics for the Twenty-First Century was published in August 2014. His co-edited book, Justice and the American Metropolis, was published by University of Minnesota Press in 2011. He is using the resources of his endowed professorship to support the Community Builders Network of Metro St. Louis (http://www.communitybuildersstl.org//M), an alliance of community development nonprofits working to build vibrant neighborhoods for everyone.