Print Email Facebook Twitter Community Entrepreneurship in Deprived Neighbourhoods: Comparing UK Community Enterprises with US Community Development Corporations (discussion paper) Title Community Entrepreneurship in Deprived Neighbourhoods: Comparing UK Community Enterprises with US Community Development Corporations (discussion paper) Author Varady, D.P. Kleinhans, R.J. Van Ham, M. Faculty Architecture and The Built Environment Department OTB Date 2015-01-01 Abstract Through a review of the recent American community development literature, this paper tests the assertion that British community enterprises (CEs) are fundamentally similar to American community development corporations (CDCs), and therefore, that CEs can learn from CDCs. In the context of the current austerity regimes, CEs and community entrepreneurship are increasingly considered as a means to continue small-scale urban regeneration, not only in the UK but also in several other European countries. While the CDC sector has achieved a relatively successful record in affordable housing production in distressed areas, CDCs are fundamentally limited in terms of reversing the processes of community decline. Our comparison of CDCs and CEs reveals similarities, but also differences with regard to organizational characteristics, co-operation on multiple scales, comprehensiveness, targeting and community participation. Apart from outlining lessons that CEs can learn from CDS, we provide recommendations for further research that should cover the lack of empirical evidence in this field. Subject community development corporationscommunity enterprisesneighborhood revitalizationentrepreneurshipregenerationUnited StatesUnited Kingdom To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:1fb18a52-019c-41cc-98bb-38a358b8bbfa Publisher Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit/ Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) Source IZA Discussion Paper 8777 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights (c) 2015 The Author(s) Files PDF 316168.pdf 175.75 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:1fb18a52-019c-41cc-98bb-38a358b8bbfa/datastream/OBJ/view