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Kain, John Forrest was born on November 9, 1935 in Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States. Son of Forrest Morgan and Bessie (Wilder) Kain.
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This book assesses the effects of spatially concentrated programs for housing and neighborhood improvement. These programs provide direct assistance to low–income property owners in an attempt to arrest neighborhood decline and encourage revitalization. The authors used the Harvard Urban Development Simulation Model (HUDS) in evaluating these programs. HUDS, a large–scale computer model, represents the process of housing rehabilitation, the production and consumption of housing services, household moving decisions, and other determinant of neighborhood change. The model simulates the behavior of approximately 80,000 individual households in two hundred residential neighborhoods of various quality levels. Unlike more aggregate models of urban development, HUDS has the capacity to identify how specific housing policies affect individual households as well as particular neighborhoods. Since program evaluations are no better than the models on which they are based, the authors provide sufficient detail to permit those readers primarily interested in the policy analysis to assess the methodology and to understand how the policies are represented in the model; a more technical discussion of the model is then presented in appendixes. Although the simulations focus on policies that induce central–city property owners to upgrade their properties and thus stimulate revitalization, many of the authors' findings are relevant to larger issues of urban development. For example, the analysis of how housing rehabilitation subsidies affect the investment behavior of nonsubsidized property owners provides insights about the link between initial upgrading and sustained neighborhood improvement. The analysis also demonstrates how differences in location, household, and housing stock characteristics affect a particular neighborhood’s responsiveness to a common policy initiative.
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Congregations and faith-based organizations have become key participants in America’s welfare revolution. Recent legislation has expanded the social welfare role of religious communities, thus revealing a pervasive lack of faith in purely economic responses to poverty. Charitable Choices is an ethnographic study of faith-based poverty relief in 30 congregations in the rural south. Drawing on in-depth interviews and fieldwork in Mississippi faith communities, it examines how religious conviction and racial dynamics shape congregational benevolence. Mississippi has long had the nation's highest poverty rate and was the first state to implement a faith-based welfare reform initiative. The book provides a grounded and even-handed treatment of congregational poverty relief rather than abstract theory on faith-based initiatives. The volume examines how congregations are coping with national developments in social welfare policy and reveals the strategies that religious communities utilize to fight poverty in their local communities. By giving particular attention to the influence of theological convictions and organizational dynamics on religious service provision, it identifies both the prospects and pitfalls likely to result from the expansion of charitable choice.
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Artioles and symposia on major controversial social issues: integration and civil rights; President Clinton's recent race initiative; poverty; education; the environment; democratic participation; disability rights; corporate welfare; and others. The range of contributors is wide, and includes Julian Bond, Herbert Gans, James Loewen, Jonathan Kozol, Manning Marable, Howard Zinn, Benjamin DeMott, Frances Fox Piven, and Marian Wright Edelman.
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Our apology for presenting to the public a new book is not that there are not sufficient books already written on the Negro, but that to our knowledge there has been no attempt made to put into permanent form a record of his remarkable progress under freedom a proo-ress not equaled in the annals of history. Although the Progress of a Generation might, as to time, more accurately bound the limits of our theme, we have preferred to record as well the struggles and triumphs of the Race in the dark days of bondage, for slavery, with all its appalling horrofs, was nevertheless in a sense educative to the Rap We are not ignorant of the fao that the eye of the critic will discern imperfections, but after much and labored research we have followed the plan that, in our judgment, would make the volume an incentive to greater progress in the future. In the chapter on Noted IM en and Women we may be charged with gross omissions, but the modesty of manv men and women worthy of mention has prevented a record of noble lives. In other cases the manuscript did not reach us in time. JW ehave quoted largely from different authors, and wherever possible have given credit, but in some cases even this was not possible, as the author was not always known. We are especially indebted to Dr. Hubbard, of Meharry Medical College, and Prof. Spence, of Fisk University, for valuable i-nformation. Our motive throughout has been that of an increasing desire to aid in the work of elevating the Race foi which many noble lives have been given. We shall feel well repaid for our labors, if, through the perusal of these pages, there shall be an incentive to even greater efforts, during the second generation of freedom. With the sincere hope that our efforts may aid in inducing the multitudes to catch the same spirit of progress that imbues their leaders, we send this volume forth. ,,r-r-r.o THE (Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)
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academic administrator educator
Kain, John Forrest was born on November 9, 1935 in Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States. Son of Forrest Morgan and Bessie (Wilder) Kain.
Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Political Science, Bowling Green (Ohio) University, 1957. Master of Arts, Doctor of Philosophy, University California, Berkeley, 1961. AM, Harvard University, 1968.
Research economist Rand Corporation, Santa Monica, California, 1961-1962. Associate professor economics United States Air Force Academy, 1962-1964. Visiting research associate London School of Economics, 1964.
Director program regional and urban economics Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1967-1978, chair department city planning, 1975-1981, assistant professor economics, 1964-1968, Henry Lee professor economics, professor Afro-American studies, 1991—1997, professor economics, 1969-1990. Senior staff member National Bureau Economic Research, 1967-1972. Acting editor Review Economics and Statistics, 1970-1971.
Cecil and Ida Green chair for study of science and society, professor economics University Texas, Dallas, from 1997. Consultant Government of Singapore, 1980-1981, Government of Thailand, 1982, Government of Indonesia, 1987, Government of Bulgaria, 1992, Ministry of Finance Government of Guatemala, 1988, United States Commission on Civil Rights, Washington, 1968, United States Department Housing & Urban Planning, Washington, 1966-1968, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, 1961. Visiting professor University Texas, Dallas, 1991-1992.
Director Cecil & Ida Green Center, University Texas, Dallas, 1998.
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Author: Housing Markets and Racial Discrimination, 1975, Essays on Urban Spatial Structures, 1975, Housing and Neighborhood Dynamics, 1985, Increasing the Productivity of the Nation's Urban Transportation Infrastructure, 1992. Editor: Race and Poverty, 1969. Associate editor: Review Economics and Statistics, since 1965, Social Science Research,a since 1972.Contributor numerous articles to professional journals.
Author of several papers identifying links between housing market segregations, discrimination and low levels of Black homeownership and wealth. Head of 10-year project to develop National Bureau of Economie Research, New York, New York, United States of America Urban Simulation Model and to apply it to the analysis of housing and urban development programmes and policies.
Member American Economic Association.
Married Mary Fan Kiracofe. Children: Mary Jo Kain Earle, Joanna Kain Gentsch.