ABSTRACT
Progressive tendencies in both schools of literature have, to varying degrees, borrowed from the citizen participation, social movements, community control, urban planning, and urban politics literature to consider the prospects for community-oriented planning and revitalization. From subsidizing commercial development along a riverfront to rehabilitating housing in historic but dilapidated neighbourhoods, major American cities have a myriad of development priorities competing for scarce public dollars. Edward G. Goetz demonstrates that a number of low-income housing advocacy coalitions both on the state and local levels emerged in the mid-1980s out of a commitment to counter the subsidized housing retrenchment of the Reagan administration. True to the theorizing of Monsignor Gino Baroni, founder of the National Centre for Urban-Ethnic Affairs and HUD Assistant Secretary under Carter, community development corporations have worked to reconcile competing racial and class interests in inner-city neighbourhoods.
