Community Development
Housing the Homeless
The War on Poverty
Public Housing
100
When community members come together and build stronger, tougher communities.
What is community development?
100
These are meant to be used for temporary situations and provide little to no comfort.
What are shelters?
100
This President began what is called the War on Poverty by saying “our aim is not only to relieve the symptoms of poverty, but to cure it and, above all, prevent it”.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
100
Another name that Public Housing is commonly known by.
What is the Projects?
200
A type of community development that is composed of many CDCs and is a means of channeling funding to local communities for use in community development.
What is organization-based community development?
200
This type of homelessness consists of those who use shelters as long-term housing, comprise only about 11% of the shelter population but account for more than 50% of all occupied beds on a given day.
What is chronic homelessness?
200
The Social Security Amendment created these two healthcare programs available to certain groups of people.
What are Medicare and Medicaid?
200
Up until the 1970s, this was not the way that Public Housing was seen.
What is a failure?
300
This type of community development uses the following 4 basic strategies to address all of its goals: leadership development, organizational development, community organizing, and collaborations.
What is community capacity building?
300
Banning the feeding of the homeless in public areas and spikes under overpasses and by storefronts are examples of this
What are tactics to prevent dependence?
300
This became a major focus of Johnson’s War On Poverty after interest in community organizing spiked.
What is community action?
300
This policy states that any tenant, household member, or visitor, engaged in any criminal activity will be evicted, without second chances.
What is the One-Strike Policy?
400
This strategy focuses on changing the individuals' sense of identity and their membership status in a particular group, and is not restricted to one community.
What are social movements?
400
This advocate for the homeless is the director of Love Thy Neighbor and has been arrested for publicly feeding the homeless.
Who is Arnold Abbot?
400
These Columbia University Professors theorized that delinquency is influenced by the decisions made by low income youth, based off of their opportunity status.
Who are Ohlin and Cloward?
400
This was created to demolish and rebuild public housing.
What is Hope VI?
500
These link community level efforts to wider regional players.
What are collaborations?
500
This includes support services for the homeless.
What is public housing?
500
This theory from Oscar Lewis posed that those in poverty view the world in a variety of traits and tend to believe that all events are premeditated and inevitable.
What is the Culture of Poverty?
500
The failure aspect of Public Housing came to be when high-rise buildings were created with low managerial watch creating this.
What are vandalism, criminal activity, and damage to the buildings?
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