After 40 years of work in the urban neighborhoods of Canada and the United States, McKnight paints a scathing picture of “how competent communities have been invaded, captured, and colonized by professionalized services” with devastating results. Reciting a litany of lethal effects produced by service providers—families collapsing, schools failing, violence spreading, prisons swelling—he charges them with eroding the very soul of community. “The enemy is not poverty, sickness, and disease,” McKnight writes. “The enemy is a set of interests that need dependency, masked by service.”
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