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GCI Working Paper Series - 1998
Long-Term
Collaborations: Building Relationships and Achieving Results
in the
UIC Neighborhoods Initiative
Wim Wiewel & Ismael Guerrero
January 1998
GCP-98-1
This article analyzes the UIC Neighborhoods Initiative as a successful
cross-sector collaboration of a university with other organizations
that jointly addresses societal problems. The analysis qualitatively
identifies the critical factors that have been key elements in creating
a successful partnership.
Changing the Way We Do Things Symposium
Summary Report
Thomas J. Lenz & Kimberly Gester
January 1998
GCP-98-2
This paper reports on the symposium titled, “Changing the Way
We Do Things,” conducted on the future of community development
in the Chicago region. This report details what was planned, what happened,
and what the participants thought about it.
Sheltering
the Homeless: Social Mobility Along the Continuum of Care
Charles Hoch & Lynette Bowden
November 1998
GCP-98-3
The homeless problem now enjoys a settled if marginal place in U.S.
domestic policy. Programs to treat and remedy the homeless problem have
also found acceptance integrated within a “continuum of care”.
In this essay we argue that current ideas about the problem and its
solution emphasize social mobility for the poor – a mobility that
existing empirical research does not support. The overemphasis on versions
of social dependence as the problem has encouraged the use of shelters
and social programs to change individual households rather than the
kind and amounts of low rent housing. We review current evidence on
shelter use to illustrate the limits on mobility. Providing supportive
housing to remedy the privations of the poor does make good sense, but
mainly if organized to strengthen social reciprocity among households
in affordable residential communities. This not only requires social
investment, but innovative design and use of affordable housing alternatives.
A brief case study provides an example.
Esperanza
Familiar: Partnership in the Settlement House Tradition
Paper originally prepared for presentation at the U.S.
Department of Housing and Urban Development’s conference on Community
Outreach Partnership Centers in East St. Louis, Illinois, September
25, 1998.
Richard Kordesh
December 1998
GCP-98-4
This paper uses a network analysis to study the emergence of a community-university
partnership in Chicago’s Pilsen community. It tracks the creation
of Esperanza Familiar, a joint product of the Resurrection Project,
a community development corporation in Pilsen and the Jane Addams College
of Social Work, University of Illinois at Chicago. The partnership creates
and disseminates knowledge to such diverse beneficiaries as faculty,
graduate students, staff of the Resurrection Project and families in
the neighborhood. This learning is reminiscent of the education-based
approaches to community empowerment that were spawned by Jane Addams’
Hull-House in Chicago in the early twentieth century.
The
Chicago Response to Urban Problems:
Building University/Community Collaborations
Loomis Mayfield, Maureen Hellwig & Brian Banks
April 1998
GCP-98-5
Modern university/community relationships are sometimes marked by division
and hostility. Key problems in the relationship include the assumed
objectivity of the academy; the real estate interests of universities;
and the alliance of real estate interests and political figures in opposition
to community concerns. The history and description of these relationships
in Chicago indicates there are other historical trends which have led
to fruitful partnerships, including: the influence of the settlement
house movement; the strength and diversity of community groups; change
and diversity in the university; and the influence of the civil rights
movement. This article uses the examples of the Neighborhoods Initiative
at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the Policy Research Action
Group, a consortium of four universities Loyola, DePaul, Chicago State
University, and the University of Illinois at Chicago and community
partners, to show how strong, viable collaborations can occur.
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