An important element which determines how well the manager responds to residents and their needs is the manager's sensitivity to the socioeconomic factors which impact their lives . This workshop strives to enable you to be more sensitive to such factors. Accordingly ,it has three overall goals :

1. To acquaint you with legislation which has affected the residential composition of public housing,
2. To provide you with a theoretical background on poverty and its implications, and
3. To acquaint you with the social and economic characteristics of the disadvantaged poor.

Each goal has several learning objectives . These learning objectives are, simply, measurable statements about the specific knowledge you are expected to acquire in the workshop.

This report is part of the collection of scanned historical documents available to the public.