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Urban Regimes and Community Empowerment: Lessons from the Empowerment Zones in Atlanta and Baltimore
Unformatted Document Text:  38 Village Center Real Estate Sustainability: This project is designed to secure physical space for the Village Centers to continue their operations. Quality of Life. Baltimore’s empowerment zone program reflects the belief that the quality of life in zone neighborhoods is an important aspect of making them “neighborhoods of choice.” Programs have been created to improve housing stock and encourage home ownership, enhance public safety, remediate lead paint, and youth after-school activities. However, other programs, such as the primary and preventive health are quite limited in their scope to prepare zone residents for work. Extended School Day: This program funds after-school programs for youth in the empowerment zone to reduce delinquency. Housing Venture Fund: This fund provides loans that convert to grants (up to $5,000) to assist less affluent people who wish to purchase a home in the empowerment zone. External Repair Loan and Grant Fund: EBMC provides loans and grants to zone residents to improve their properties to bring them into compliance with housing codes. Lead Paint Remediation: This program treats homes that have lead paint to make them safe to occupy. Public Safety Programs: EBMC sponsored four public safety programs. One is “block- by-block” organizing, a program that organized block captains to assist city police with crime watch activities and citizen patrols. Another is “enhanced community policing” which assigned a city police officer to each Village Center to assist in coordinating public safety matters. A third was the “mobile police outreach stations” which financed the purchase of mobile police stations to be used in the zone to deter crime. Finally, EBMC sponsored a program for “safe neighborhood design” that was to finance plans in the Village Centers to help assure that the physical environment in the zone was planned with public safety concerns in mind. Primary and Preventive Health Care: This program provides health care screening for zone residents when health is seen as a barrier to employment.

Authors: Stoker, Robert.
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Village Center Real Estate Sustainability: This project is designed to secure physical
space for the Village Centers to continue their operations.
Quality of Life. Baltimore’s empowerment zone program reflects the belief that the
quality of life in zone neighborhoods is an important aspect of making them “neighborhoods of
choice.” Programs have been created to improve housing stock and encourage home ownership,
enhance public safety, remediate lead paint, and youth after-school activities. However, other
programs, such as the primary and preventive health are quite limited in their scope to prepare
zone residents for work.
Extended School Day: This program funds after-school programs for youth in the
empowerment zone to reduce delinquency.
Housing Venture Fund: This fund provides loans that convert to grants (up to $5,000) to
assist less affluent people who wish to purchase a home in the empowerment
zone.
External Repair Loan and Grant Fund: EBMC provides loans and grants to zone
residents to improve their properties to bring them into compliance with housing
codes.
Lead Paint Remediation: This program treats homes that have lead paint to make them
safe to occupy.
Public Safety Programs: EBMC sponsored four public safety programs. One is “block-
by-block” organizing, a program that organized block captains to assist city
police with crime watch activities and citizen patrols. Another is “enhanced
community policing” which assigned a city police officer to each Village Center
to assist in coordinating public safety matters. A third was the “mobile police
outreach stations” which financed the purchase of mobile police stations to be
used in the zone to deter crime. Finally, EBMC sponsored a program for “safe
neighborhood design” that was to finance plans in the Village Centers to help
assure that the physical environment in the zone was planned with public safety
concerns in mind.
Primary and Preventive Health Care: This program provides health care screening for
zone residents when health is seen as a barrier to employment.


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