Inner City Housing Project Social Development

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• Inner City Housing Project Social Development

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Inner City Housing Project
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ICHP Social Development

• Objectives
• Implementation Components and Timeline
• NHT
• Evaluation

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Inner City Housing Project
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Objectives of the Inner City Housing Project

• To increase the quality of housing within the
  inner city
• To address public health concerns related to
  housing and the wider environment
• To enact social change and urban renewal by
  addressing the social development issues of
  changing physical lifestyle adjustment to
  apartment-style, strata-managed living.

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History of the Inner City Housing Project

• Announced by P.J. Patterson in April 2003
• The programme aims to promote sustainable
  development in the inner city communities of the
  Kingston Metropolitan Area through the
  improvement of physical and social
  infrastructure, the creation of economic
  employment opportunities and a general
  improvement in the quality of life for citizens
  in these communities.

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Precursors to the ICHP

• Kingston Redevelopment Committee Downtown
  Kingston Business Improvement District
• Vision 2020
• Malaysian model

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ICHP Footprint - KMR

• Denham Town
• Hannah Town
• Maxfield Park Ricketts Crescent
• White Wing
• 88 Spanish Town Road Whitfield Town, Bennet
  Land, Union Gardens, Delacree Park, Greenwich
  Town and Boat Island

• 184 Spanish Town Road Majesty Gardens
• 231 Spanish Town Road
• Parade Gardens Southside and Tel Aviv
• Matthews Lane
• MidTown (Tivoli Gardens)
• GoodwinPark Allman Town

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ICHP Footprint- Rural

• Tawes Pen, St. Catherine
• Falmouth, Trelawny
• Russia, Westmoreland
• Frontier/Pagee, St.Mary

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Long Term Residence

• Hannah Town 80 have lived at their addresses 5
  years and more
• Denham Town Three-fifths were born in the area.
  66 have been living at their addresses 5 years
  or more
• White Wing 75 have lived at their addresses 10
  years or more

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Culture of Poverty

• Discredited as deterministic
• However, the qualities spoken of are chronic in
  the inner cities.
• These are
• lack of involvement in the institutions of the
  wider society birth certificates, tax
  registration numbers except that of the
  prisons, the courts among others
• Dire financial circumstances lack of savings
  and shortage of cash

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Culture of Poverty (continued)

• Inadequate education and virtual illiteracy an
  average of 29 have no secondary schooling. The
  majority have no academic qualifications (91 in
  Parade Gardens)
• Mistrust of the Police and government (Babylon)
• Early sexual experience and widespread
  illegitimacy prevalence

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Culture of Poverty (continued)

• Mother-centered families
• Lack of Privacy density of household population
  83 in Denham Town live in 1-room units. The
  average household size is 3.1 persons.

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Objectives of the ICHP Social Development

• Economic Viability
• - Sustainability Mortgage and Maintenance
  Payment
• - Employment
• - Entrepreneurship

• Social Relations
• - Conflict Management
• - Civic Engagement
• - Effective Leadership
• - Personal Development

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ICHP Social Development

• Healthy Lifestyles
• Community Health
• Environmental Awareness
• - Parenting and Reproductive Health

• Community Maintenance Sustainability
• - Strata Management
• Environmental Alliance Club
• Leadership Training
• Parenting Reproductive Health
• - Involvement of reputable and active CBOs

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ICHP - Monitoring

• Liaison Officer
• Community Services Officer
• Strata Executive
• Community Meetings
• Arrears Counseling
• 6-month assessment

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ICHP -NHT

• Differential Requirements Contributions
  Deposits
• Geographic Limitations
• Social Infrastructure
• All in the face of community stigma

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ICHP Role of the Social Worker

• The social work profession promotes social
  change, problem solving in human relationships
  and the empowerment and liberation of people to
  enhance well-being. Utilising theories of human
  behaviour and social systems, social work
  intervenes at the points where people interact
  with their environments. Principles of human
  rights and social justice are fundamental to
  social work.
• (International Federation of Social Workers)

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Compare with Social Work with Social Development

• The ultimate objective of social development is
  to bring about sustained improvement in the
  well-being of the individual, family, community
  and society at large. The reduction or
  eradication of mass poverty, inequality and
  conditions of underdevelopment are widely
  accepted indicators of social progress. The
  dimensions of social development are social
  welfare health education housing urban and
  rural development and land reform.

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ICHP- Monitoring

• Community Indicators developed in the
  development of the six-month assessment
  instrument
• Indicators (to date)
• - Mortgage Payment
• - Employment Rate
• - Strata Participation Rate
• - Training Participation Rate
• - Environmental Management Garbage and
  Landscaping
• - Civic Engagement no. of events within and
  without the community

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