@article{db7f7134db2e44f48afb943f8c6ceb54,
title = "Institutionalized social skill and the rise of mediating organizations in urban governance: The case of the Cleveland Housing Network",
abstract = "In this paper we build on an expanding literature that attempts to understand the changing organizational and institutional dimensions of contemporary urban governance. We do so by utilizing the Cleveland Housing Network as a lens through which salient characteristics of contemporary governance become visible. Doing so enables us to highlight the distinctive challenges of the multi-institutional nature of contemporary governance arrangements and {"}heterarchic{"} governance in particular. These challenges situate mediating organizations as central components of governance arrangements. Finally, by focusing on the distinctive characteristics of the organization's leaders, we demonstrate that mediating organizations are usefully thought of as institutionalized forms of the {"}social skill{"} of institutional entrepreneurs.",
keywords = "Development, Low-income housing, Nonprofit sector, Policy",
author = "Michael McQuarrie and Norman Krumholz",
note = "Funding Information: . . . financing the project involved one conventional bank loan, five separate linked deposits from four sources, two secondary mortgage loans made by the city to CHN and subsequently to the partnership, one weatherization grant made by the city, and two interim loans, one by the city and one by the Enterprise Foundation. Fourteen applications to eight sources were made, negotiated, and closed to raise $2.2 million for the project. (Warren 1995). Funding Information: CHN and the CDCs also strengthened CRA by helping press the Federal Reserve Bank to include new requirements for banks to publish financial data and new regulations favoring investment in CDCs. The very preservation of the CRA in 1996 was due in part to the lobbying of the CDCs to preserve the legislation. Similarly, LISC and the Enterprise Foundation rallied support from CHN and the CDCs to protect the Community Development Block Grant, LIHTC and the HUD HOME program when threatened by Congressional budget cutters.",
year = "2011",
month = jun,
doi = "10.1080/10511482.2011.591408",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "21",
pages = "421--442",
journal = "Housing Policy Debate",
issn = "1051-1482",
publisher = "Taylor Graham Publishing",
number = "3",
}