On a neighborhood level, some residents have taken matters into their own hands.
He explained that his long-term goal was to have all social services provided at the neighborhood level.
There are law enforcement and community relations issues that need to be discussed at the neighborhood level.
He worries that not enough people his age are becoming involved on a neighborhood level.
On the neighborhood level, their constituencies tend to be either black or white.
But not even the biggest companies can make accurate assessments at the neighborhood level.
They bring participatory democracy to the neighborhood level, she said.
"I'm not as visible at the neighborhood level," he said.
In 2003 there were also 20 urban cooperatives that provided water services at the neighborhood level.
Most organizations had a national orientation because the economic problems the nation faced did not seem possible to change at the neighborhood levels.