Urban Investment Strategies Center
The Kenan Institute's Urban Investment Strategies Center helps develop innovative solutions to the challenges of revitalizing distressed communities.
The Center focuses its research, outreach and education initiatives to address the growing gap between the "haves" and the "have-nots" in U.S. society. This gap widened over the past two decades, reversing a quarter-century trend toward growing economic equality.
Research, Outreach and Education
The Center acts as a catalyst in the creation of urban prosperity by:
- Creating knowledge in key areas of community competitiveness
- Advising communities how to develop their community assets to thrive and prosper
- Developing market-based solutions that build community capital and promote urban development
- Teaching government, community and nonprofit leaders to become more entrepreneurial and business-like in their operations and service delivery
The Gap Between "Haves" and "Have-Nots"
The 2000 Census revealed that the majority of non-Hispanic whites are concentrated
in growing and more prosperous communities, while most blacks and other
people of color are clustered in declining and economically marginal communities.
These social and demographic trends strain race relations and threaten the
economic and social well being of urban areas and the nation. U.S. communities
can reverse these trends and build prosperous futures by developing more
fully and utilizing more effectively their community capital.
James H. Johnson Jr. [details ]
directs the Center.
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