Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...course, mistakes were made (as they are in any organization--including the Mayor's office). But in Columbus there is a good way to correct mistakes. The final recourse lies in the fact that these are regular neighborhood meetings and regular Corporation neighborhood elections...
...group tries to run away with the community's resources, or to put them to uses which are less than first priority, that group must face the consequences in the open arena of neighborhood politics. There are plenty of community groups and leaders who keep an eye on each other--just as in any other political institution...
There is no reason--save fear of the unconventional--that the businesses could not be owned by the community--through its Neighborhood Corporation--partly as cooperatives, partly as corporations. The profits could then be plowed back into such community srevices as day-care centers, teenage centers, training programs...
...Thus the Neighborhood Service Corporation, on the model of Columbus, would also own neighborhood businesses. Again, one man, one vote...
...above all, from the community point of view, a continued independent 0source of funds can transform the neighborhood corporation from a limited administrative form into a true arena for community action. Indeed, if we are serious about attempting to recreate democratic participation in America, community decisions are simply going to have to involve the attraction of real resources...