Abstract

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AMONG SOCIALLY INADEQUATE FAMILIES Elery Hamilton-Smith ONSIDERABLE interest has been of the road" as they were not accept- able to the Housing Commission as centred recently about the role of social workers in the community tenants and lacked the necessary stability and drive to seek and find. setting, and I feel that it may there- other housing. These families were alt fore be timely to set down some inadequate, with low standards of details of a recent project in which a health and child care, poor housing worker was used in developing the and employment records, and the community standards of a group of "problem families." This project was typical pattern of multiplicity of problems so well known to most case a specific case in which some com- munity spirit or community con~ious- work agencies. The Brotherhood of ness existed, but in which this was, by St. Laurence, perceiving the deep- seated nature of this problem and the normal standards, quite ineffective, and even anti-social. I am certain need for long term intensive work, set up a Family Service Project in that much of the experience gained in conjunction with the Housing Authori- this setting has valuable