This report examines and describes the evolving relationship between local immigration partnerships and their municipal hosts. Four cities were chosen with a view to including northern communities whose primary interest lay in economic development and population attraction, larger southern cities characterized by more complex and elaborate bureaucracies, and LIPs characterized by a wide variety of administrative arrangements, especially insofar as the LIP–municipal relationship was concerned. For each of the four cities, the study sought to collect information about the goals of the LIP and the context in which it developed; about the municipal and LIP planning structures and their evolution as a result of the LIP; and about the LIP’s implementation and future prospects.
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