Abstract
This article discusses the neighborhood as the locus for structuring social service delivery systems. It points out that the concern with the neighborhood is part of a general political and economic decentralization process transcending social institutions which is occurring throughout the United States as well as other parts of the world. The move toward the neighborhood is accompanied by a concern with integrated multiservice systems. However, planning for services at the neighborhood level, integrating them under a single umbrella agency, is not enough. The social, ethnic, racial, and cultural life-styles of the neighborhood must be built into the service delivery pattern. Further, social service systems at the front-line delivery level must be politically sophisticated and linked to a variety of other social institu-tions, such as income maintenance programs and natural service systems. A tentative model is presented for delivery of social services at the neighborhood level.
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