Deck 12: Metropolitan Social Policy

Question 1

Compared to Detroit, Toronto's crime rate is which of the following?

A) Toronto's crime rate is much lower than Detroit's
B) Toronto's crime rate is much higher than Detroit's
C) Toronto's crime rate is about the same as Detroit's
D) Toronto has a higher rate of violent crime, and a lower rate of non-violent crime than Detroit

Answer 1

A

Question 2

We can characterize the role of the federal government as having an indirect effect on urban policy, in that it provides funding, sets eligibility standards, and encourages homeownership, but does not set any national planning agendas.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Which of the following are Kantor's (2013) two faces of urban policy?

A) Housing and transportation
B) Social and development
C) Local and regional
D) Equity and profit

Answer 3

B

Question 4

The Department of Housing and Urban Development was formed as part of what?

A) Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal Program in 1933.
B) Lyndon Johnson's Great Society Program in 1965.
C) Ronal Reagan's National Housing Relations Program in 1981.
D) Bill Clinton's community Reinvestment Act in 1995.

Question 5

Which of the following describes the objective of the Model Cities Project?

A) To fund the formation of regional government agencies involving cities, counties, and other local municipal governments
B) To provide legal mechanisms by which cities could encourage desegregation of residential neighborhoods
C) To provide money to cities to build housing for low-income families and to economically develop blighted neighborhoods
D) To fund development projects that created attractive commercial zones on the exterior edges of cities

Question 6

In the late 1960's, when downtown business interests, along with local politicians, regrouped and worked together to use federal funds for revitalization projects, what was their focus?

A) Support for economic development, such as the construction of sports stadiums, hotel and tourist complexes, and high-rise service centers.
B) To provide money to cities to build housing for low-income families and to economically develop blighted neighborhoods
C) To provide legal mechanisms by which cities could encourage desegregation of residential neighborhoods
D) To fund the formation of regional government agencies involving cities, counties, and other local municipal governments

Question 7

By the time the original legislation ended in July 1953, about 2.4 million veterans had purchased new homes with loans backed by the Veterans Administration, under the GI Bill. Where were these homes predominantly located?

A) Central cities
B) Suburban neighborhoods
C) Rural areas
D) Heartland communities outside of coastal metropolitan regions

Question 8

Which of the following year is considered the lost decade of federal urban policy?

A) 1920-1930
B) 1940-1950
C) 1980-1990
D) 2000-2010

Question 9

How does the sociospatial perspective explain why HOPE VI resulted in mixed outcomes, with spatially concentrated effects in which adjacent neighborhoods were not impacted by redevelopment of neighboring areas?

A) The SSP sees urban social problems as national and regional in scope, so it would not expect improvements in a targeted neighborhood to have a significant effect on the city as a whole
B) The SSP sees urban social problems as being entirely cultural in nature, so because Hope VI focused on economic development, it would not expect the program to have robust cultural impacts
C) The SSP is supportive of programs rooted in local government, and so would assume that any federally-created program could misunderstand the communities in which it is being enacted and would have mixed results
D) Actually, the SSP sees the outcomes of HOPE VI as wholly positive, with targeted redevelopment benefiting all urban residents.

Question 10

Which of the following terms is used to describe a situation in which a lender initiated foreclosure on a house, then dismissed the title without telling the homeowner, so that the homeowner legally still owns the house, but since they have typically abandoned the home, the house sits in a state of neglect?

A) Banker's House
B) Bubble House
C) Trouble House
D) Zombie House

Question 11

Which of the following is NOT one of the four areas that the authors of the 2009 Urban Policy Working Group emphasized in their report?

A) Place-based policy review
B) Sustainable communities initiative
C) Transportation entrenchment program
D) Regional innovation clusters initiative
E) Neighborhood revitalization initiative

Question 12

Which form of urban policy features tax cuts for the wealthy and businesses, privatization, deregulation, and austerity?

A) Progressive urban policy
B) Conservative urban policy
C) Neoliberal urban policy
D) Consensus urban policy

Question 13

What is metropolitan social policy?

Question 14

How social policies are related to the social problems that we studied in chapter 6? Cite some examples and explain.

Question 15

Describe the history of housing as a federal urban social policy, including the Hope VI program.

Question 16

What is neoliberal policy, and what are its impacts?

Question 17

What are some characteristics of the process of privatization and what is role of public-private partnerships in this process?