Demographic Overlays of NEO Development Dollars

The City of Cleveland & Cuyahoga County Receive tons of Federal Tax Dollars annually that are supposed to drive initiatives to revitalize our community. Have you heard of any productive measures associated with our community using these funds which have actually helped the people directly who actually live in these areas??? Or, are all the funds going to pay for the ADMINISTRATION of these agencies and the people who live outside the area? 

Once you put a map overlay of all these tax dollars being implemented in Cleveland, Ohio and then you wonder where the money really is, you might just begin asking your own questions of how it all works for the long term objectives of some of our big leaders....like Councils, the Planning Commissions, and Community Development Corporations...

The worst part about these programs and all the energy exhausted by all the above is that they have been virtually implemented and in most cases have deprived the public of direct participation in their strategic planning processes and public participation options.

HUD EMPOWERMENT ZONE: [1] Cleveland, Ohio

Think of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation and Development in that area.

HUD ENTERPRISE ZONE: Cleveland, Ohio

HUD SUPPLEMENTAL EMPOWERMENT ZONE Paper by CSU Levin College. [2]

PREFACE BY WRITER:  

This paper briefly describes and analyzes the Supplemental Empowerment Zone program in Cleveland, Ohio, USA during the period 1995-2000. It is intended to complement the paper being presented by Robin Boyle and Peter Eisinger entitled “Empowerment Zones: Much Ado About Something in U.S. Urban Policy”, which provides an overview of the Empowerment Zone program initiated in the United States in 1994-95 by the Clinton administration. I was the leader of an evaluation team that followed the Cleveland program for Abt Associates and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and is reflected in the as yet unreleased Abt report entitled “Interim Assessment of the Empowerment Zones and Enterprise Communities Program: A Progress Report”. The views of the author are not those of Abt Associates or HUD.

 DATA SETS [3]