Howard W. Hallman papers

This collection contains government publications, organizational publications, newsletters, research materials, reports, and newspaper articles. These materials date from 1945-2003 with the bulk falling within 1961-1985. The subject matter within this collection cover citizen participation in neighborhood decentralization, revitalization, and community organizing. The records deal with background material on emergence of community corporations in the 1960s, studies and reports on creation of little city halls, neighborhood councils, and other modes of municipal decentralization in various cities (1969-77), training and technical assistance on citizen participation in community development and neighborhood self-help activities (1977-83), articles and papers on these topics by such persons as Jim Cunningham, Joseph Zimmerman, Milton Kotler, and Donna Shalala (1960s, 1970s), citizen participation in local budget making including reports covering 15 years in New York City, Dayton, St. Paul, and Portland, Oregon, studies for city charter commissions in Pittsburgh (1975) and New York (1989), reports and newsletters from national organizations dealing with neighborhoods, reports developed by the National Commission on Neighborhoods (1977-79), papers on neighborhood topics prepared for HUD by various authors (1983), and community crime prevention (1980s).