Politicaly Economy Approaches to Developing the Ghetto Economy
One thing that fascinates me is how congregations meeting in the downtown area or their clergy get "the Call" to a suburban location, abandoning the downtown. In that they reflect the culture of which they are a part. There is a set of deliberate urban development policies, which favor suburban sprawl rather than urban density, commuter road construction rather than infrastructure repair, and majority culture amenities and services rather than minority assistance.
People who focus on these realities address such issues as race and class and the need for specific initiatives in the area of increasing equity in education and training when dealing with local economic development in the ghetto.
One of the perspectives on the subject comes for the Political Economy based workers. Their outlook is that economic arrangements are designed and reshaped by human decisions. Therefore, they feel that the decisions, which created our current conditions, can be changed so that they are not only stopped but reversed. they make no secret for the fact that now everybody is going to be pleased with such decisions, particularly those who stand to lose by them. But then again, as when we all used to play in the sandbox together, "maybe it is just not their turn".
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