SOCIAL-WELFARE PLANNING

In: The annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Band 352, S. 119-128

Abstract

Soc welfare is being forced by the activities of Ur renewal to take on new dimensions & a new definition. The old apparatus of soc welfare planning has been able to disregard totalities of need, to avoid accountability for failure or gaps, & to function without discipline. Ur renewal cannot do this because its ultimate objective is a wholly sound city. It has been demonstrated that physical improvements will not produce net gains unless accompanied by appropriate & adequate soc welfare programs. Thus, soc welfare planning should be a function of the agency responsible for physical planning; plan & strategy for both must be developed together. Because discipline or conformity to plan cannot be imposed on voluntary agencies, both plan & implementation must be derived, primarily, from public sources. The concept now developing is based on 2 principles: (1) priority must be given to the amplification & modification of those systems which operate naturally as the dynamics of upward mobility - namely, employment, income, educ, & housing; & (2) socwelfare services should be focused first on the areas or projects of Ur renewal so that problems of the city can be attacked at a feasible rate & that full use be made of 'society' or soc structure as an instrument of soc rehabilitation. AA.