ABSTRACT
The dazzling success of social capital both in social science academia and in the policy world was followed by a wave of criticism. Empirical research on social capital that takes note of the various forms of social capital has been expanded recently by a body of data that provides a hitherto unavailable perspective on how social capital's various forms are connected with social inequalities. The data base called Statistics on Living and Income Conditions (EU-SILC) gathered by Eurostat since 2005 is designed primarily to assess the trends of social exclusion but is also the prime data base for studying social inequalities in European societies. Physically deteriorated urban neighborhoods that concentrate socially excluded groups become the targets of urban rehabilitation policy in one way or another. In the expert model, rehabilitation policy is an official instrument that is initiated and put together by municipal experts working in various departments of a city's bureaucracy.
