Federal Government Policies and the “Housing Quotient” of Black American Families

1989 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 25-42
Author(s):  
Wilhelmina A. Leigh
Keyword(s):  
Public Housing ◽  
Federal Government ◽  
Urban Policy ◽  
Government Policies ◽  
Black American ◽  
Federal Programs ◽  
Fair Housing ◽  
Federal Policies ◽  
Policies And Programs ◽  
American Families

The “housing quotient”—the condition of and access to housing—is defined for black American families and is examined in conjunction with the major relevant federal policies and programs. Policies considered include fair housing and the national urban policy. Programs examined include public housing and rental assistance. The lack of data constrains the completeness of the analysis, although certain programs seem to enroll blacks in disproportion to the rest of the population. The paper concludes that blacks currently are served by all federal programs, even though many programs historically have failed to live up to their potential to assist blacks.

State Policies Affecting School-Linked Integrated Services

1996 ◽  
Vol 17 (5) ◽  
pp. 284-292 ◽  
Author(s):  
CANDACE J. SULLIVAN ◽  
JULE M. SUGARMAN
Keyword(s):  
Inclusive Education ◽  
Integrated Services ◽  
Federal State ◽  
Federal Programs ◽  
Federal Policies ◽  
Services Integration ◽  
Local Initiatives ◽  
State And Local ◽  
Policies And Programs ◽  
Barriers To Services

This article describes current federal, state, and local initiatives affecting school-linked integrated services and notes significant changes in federal policies and programs that will influence future developments. after delineating barriers to services integration efforts, outlining state policy trends, and addressing issues of finance, we describe some promising state approaches and consider implications of recent federal actions devolving much responsibility for federal programs to states and localities. the article is intended to be a useful guide for educators seeking to understand how state and local policies and programs related to school-linked services integration efforts affect the ability of school and communities to operate effective, inclusive education programs.

The Politics of Urban Renewal

1971 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 265-280
Author(s):  
P. J. Madgwick
Keyword(s):  
Title I ◽  
Public Housing ◽  
Federal Government ◽  
Urban Renewal ◽  
Residential Development ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
High Income ◽  
American Family ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Slum Dwellers

The Housing Act of 1949 established in Title I the goal of ‘a decent home and a suitable living environment for every American family’. To achieve this goal the Federal Government was to support, by grants and by its legal powers to acquire land, a massive programme of public housing: ‘…it was the first and, until the Act of 1968, the only public housing measure that authorized action that bore some reasonable relation to need’. Nevertheless, the targets set by the 1949 Act for 1954 have still not been reached. Subsequent legislation shifted the emphasis of the programme from public housing to broader schemes of urban renewal, including non-residential development and middle- and high-income housing. The most serious aspect of this neglect of the needs of the poor has been the inadequate management of relocation for those displaced by renewal. For many slum-dwellers in the 1950s ‘urban renewal’ came to mean ‘Negro removal’.

scholarly journals The discretionary use of oil revenues in Brazil: Federal dynamics

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (spe) ◽  
pp. 667-679
Author(s):  
BENI TROJBICZ ◽  
CATARINA IANNI SEGATTO
Keyword(s):  
Federal Government ◽  
Discretionary Power ◽  
Federal Policies ◽  
Continuity And Change ◽  
Education And Health ◽  
Oil Resources ◽  
Oil Revenues ◽  
Economic Stabilization ◽  
Brazilian Case ◽  
The Way

Abstract This article analyzes the Brazilian case of federal centralization of oil revenues, to show how jurisdictions’ preferences may direct federal dynamics through central federative mechanisms. The study uses historical and institutional approaches that explain continuity and change in territorial regimes. Specifically, we analyse the loss of discretionary power in the use of oil resources through the understanding whether and how these changes affected the approval of National Law 12858 in 2013, which determined that federal government, states, and municipalities should spend their share of oil revenues on education and health. We show the way subnational preferences affect federal policies, highlighting the importance of causality and context, both politically and institutionally, and indicating a return to a governability pattern that seemed to be buried with the economic stabilization plan of 1994.

scholarly journals Entanglement of Top-Down and Bottom-Up: Sociotechnical Innovation Pathways of Geothermal Energy in Switzerland

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olivier Ejderyan ◽  
Franziska Ruef ◽  
Michael Stauffacher
Keyword(s):  
Federal Government ◽  
Heat Production ◽  
Geothermal Energy ◽  
Electricity Generation ◽  
Electricity Production ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Federal Policies ◽  
Deep Geothermal Energy ◽  
Policy Incentives

By looking at deep geothermal energy in Switzerland, this article illustrates how innovation pathways in federal countries take entangled forms between top-down and bottom-up. The Swiss federal government presents deep geothermal energy as an important technology to decarbonize electricity production. Setbacks in early projects have slowed these efforts. Despite strong policy incentives from the federal government, no electricity is being produced from geothermal projects in Switzerland in 2019. Based on four case studies, we analyze how some cantons and cities have taken different pathways: Rather than implementing federal objectives, they favor heat production instead of electricity generation. The relative success of these initiatives led federal authorities to modify their approach to promoting geothermal energy. This study shows that federal mechanisms and instruments alone are not enough to make energy infrastructures acceptable locally. To learn from bottom-up experiences and adapt federal policies to local reality, better coordination between the federal and subnational levels is needed.

Dietary change for cardiovascular disease prevention among Black-American families

1990 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 433-443 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom Baranowski ◽  
Janice Henske ◽  
Bruce Simons-Morton ◽  
Judy Palmer ◽  
Kathy Tiernan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cardiovascular Disease ◽  
Disease Prevention ◽  
Dietary Change ◽  
Cardiovascular Disease Prevention ◽  
Black American ◽  
American Families
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