Community Development: Progress on Economic Development Activities Varies among211 the Empowerment Zones

摘要

The program examines the progress made by the federal empowerment zones in211u001eimplementing the program, describes the steps taken by the two responsible 211u001efederal agencies--the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the 211u001eU.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)--to monitor and evaluate the existing 211u001ezones' progress, and describes the status of steps to designate the second group 211u001eof empowerment zones. This report focuses on six zones that we visited--three 211u001eurban (Atlanta, Baltimore, and New York City) and three rural (the Rio Grande 211u001eValley, the Kentucky Highlands, and the Mississippi Mid-Delta) empowerment zones, 211u001eall of which were designated in 1994. The report focuses on the empowerment 211u001ezones' progress in implementing economic development activities.