Submitted by Curtis Price, Aug 27, 2008 21:38

I haven't read this book, but what Mr. Lucas talks about in Chicago is equally true for Baltimore's Empowerment Zones. Launched with much fanfare and community "charettes" I think they were called, very little has been accomplished except for some new housing, which has not been enough to turn around the multiple layers of social problems left festering in the wake of the Zones largesse.

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