What is obvious from this analysis is the disjunction between white suburbs and black
urban ghettos. Rusk (1995) argues that little will change unless cities are reorganized
into metropolitan governments facilitating the linkage between these distant worlds. Are
metropolitan governments more successful in addressing poverty concentration? Is this
the only vehicle for change? Buerger (1998) creatively suggests the formation of sister
neighborhoods in which economically distant communities join forces at the local level.
How could such a proposal be implemented? Community justice is not likely to succeed
unless these broader structural issues are addressed. Rarely, however, do communities
organize with the expressed purpose of deconcentrating poverty. This would require inter-cornmunity efforts in the face of political challenges to their implementation, and
would force community advocates to expand their horizons beyond geographically narrow
conceptions of community in order to foster greater interdependence between urban
and suburban areas.