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FINDINGS <br />The Urban Strategies Task Force has divided its findings on urban decay into four categories: <br />General, The Causes, The Impact and The Solutions. <br />CenenI <br />The Twin Gties are not unique in facing problems of urban decay; the challenge is facing <br />most major metropolitan areas. <br />Many resources necessary to serve low income people with special needs are concentrated <br />in the central cities. <br />Populations in all communities within the Metropolitan area will become more diverse. <br />Few suburban communities have mechanisms in place to address increasing diversity. <br />It is equally important to look at programs that prevent decay in the inner ring suburbs as <br />in the core cities. <br />Organized and empowered neighborhoods have developed models for successfully <br />addressing elements of urban blight <br />Dispersion of low income housing reduces the problem of the concentration of poverty but <br />also creates social service delivery problems. The creation of new, dispersed low income <br />housing only reduces concentration if there is an equivalent elimination of deteriorated <br />housing units in the areas of concentration. <br />There is a tendency to stereotype low income people. The term “low income** refins to many <br />dififerent kinds of individuals Ih^g in many di^ient circumstances with a variety of needs. <br />These people can not all be served by the same solution. <br />Racism and prejudice can not be condoned. There can be strength in diversity, ronnunities <br />need to know how to build on and support diversity of all lands - economic, racial age, etc. <br />People who live in low income housing are often transit-dependent but transit systems do <br />not adequately link these individuals to jobs in either the core cities or suburbs. <br />a Urban Strategies Task Force Report