新型城市贫困群体亦日趋成为政府和公众关注的一个重点和难点问题。加强城市贫困群体思想政治工作发挥其“生命线”的重要功能和作用,已是刻不容缓。社区作为加强城市贫困群体社区思想政治工作的一个重要阵地,其功能以及工作方法、内容、途径等在理论和实践上仍有许多方面值得研究和加强。 New urban poverty groups are also increasingly becoming a key and difficult issue for the government and the public. It is imperative to step up the important function and role of ideological and political work for the urban poor in giving full play to their “lifeline.” As an important front for strengthening the ideological and political work of the urban poor communities, its functions, working methods, contents and approaches still remain to be studied and strengthened in theory and in practice in many aspects.