DO YOU REMEBER THE BLOCK WHERE YOU GREW UP AND THE PEOPLE WHO LIVED THERE? Was it any different than the block where you live now?  If you are like most of us, you probably feel that there is less sense of community on your current block.  Many social commentators have remarked on the loss of social capital in this country at the grass roots level. 

The Sense of Community in Lansing Neighborhoods Project (SOC Project), through the Urban Affairs Programs at Michigan State University, has been studying social capital on urban blocks in the City of Lansing to demonstrate its relationship to quality of life and to pro-social behaviors and to find ways to enhance and strengthen it. 

Through the creation of a database to study social capital, the SOC Project will help to build stronger neighborhoods in the City of Lansing, one block at a time.