Neighborhood improvement program 1978-1979 community development block grant and neighborhood capital improvement budgets

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...gives background of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 that consolidated federal funding of various urban renewal programs into a single Community Development Block Grant (CDBG); gives overview of neighborhood improvement and preservation in Boston; discusses and presents budget data on each community/economic development program and capital improvement project (such as homesteading, affordable housing, open space, demolition and boarding, security patrols, business districts, community development corporations, street improvements, sidewalks, lighting, public facilities, human/social services, child day care, park improvements, etc.) for each neighborhood; the 1978/1979 edition gives funding source, census tract affected and environmental review status of each program; copies of this item was in the BRA collection...