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The Middle Neighborhood Movement, 1970-2000
Since the turn of the 20th Century, a broad range of people and institutions have been concerned with improving neighborhoods in America?s cities. Groups often sprang up in reaction to public projects like highway construction or school demolition. They turned their energy toward keeping the population they had and attracting new residents to neighborhoods that had been losing population. The national convergence of local groups led to significant federal policy changes including the passage of the Community Reinvestment Act. For the last 20 years, however, the national recognition and ...