This "story", told in conversation and dramatized in rampant vandalism, becomes a significant block to any cooperative efforts at development and contributes to negligence and destruction within the community. Publicity concerning plans, meetings or proposed projects is greeted with scepticism born from years of experiencing inner city programmes that come and go. Residents are tired of paper promises and lucid about the extent of reformulation required to rebuild their community, doubting that such rebuilding will ever occur. Nothing less than a rapid, massive physical demonstration of community rehabilitation will release residents from the habitual "story" and permit them to spread the image of their ghetto neighbourhood as a worthy place in which to expend the creative efforts of themselves and of others.