The Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development
The Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development seeks to address the problems of persistent and concentrated urban poverty and is dedicated to understanding how social and economic changes affect low-income communities and their residents. Based in Cleveland, the Center views the city as both a tool for building communities and producing change locally, and as a representative urban center from which nationally-relevant research and policy implications can be drawn.
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CENTER NEWS

Plain Dealer: Increase Early Childhood Education Funding

May 14 2013

Rob Fischer

Ohio needs to increase funding for early childhood education, according to the Cleveland Plain Dealer opinion article "Ohio can and should beef up funding for early-childhood education" posted on May 11, 2013. The writer supports his argument with data from a report released by the Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development in April evaluating Cuyahoga County's Invest in Children. "The fact is that preschool is delivering children far better prepared to engage school is a huge positive outcome," said Center Co-Director Robert Fischer. "This report confirms that."

Read the full article at Cleveland.com.

RESEARCH & PUBLICATIONS

Report: Mapping Human Capital in Northeast Ohio

Feb 14 2013

Mapping Human Capital: Where Northeast Ohio’s Young and Middle-Age Adults Are Locating

While Cleveland's overall population has declined 17% from 2000 to 2010, past research by the Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development has demonstrated population gains for certain age demographics in certain regional localities. Mapping Human Capital: Where Northeast Ohio's Young and Middle-Age Adults Are Locating, the second Briefly Stated report released by the Poverty Center in 2013, expands on the initial research by examining the mobility of young and middle-age adults in Northeastern Ohio.

NEO CANDO

NationalJournal: Cleveland Restores Slavic Village Neighborhood

Dec 17 2012

Councilman Tony Brancatelli, a tireless champion of the neighborhood, checks a map at the offices of the Slavic Village Development Corporation. Red signifies homes that are open, vacant, and vandalized. There are more than 100 splashes of red on this map.

On December 10, 2012, the NationalJournal posted a story and slideshow concerning Cleveland's restoration projects of the Slavic Village neighborhood and how they can be an example for the rest of the country. The fifth slide shows Councilman Tony Brancatelli using a map of Slavic Village with over 100 red marks representing homes that are open, vacant, or vandalized. The map was created by the Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development by request of the Slavic Village Development Corporation to help understand the housing situation in the neighborhood.