Stakeholders taking and stakeholders giving:
In urban regeneration, the stakeholders are seldom only giving or only receiving. Neither should they be. While the objective of regeneration is to make neighbourhoods sustainable by reversing the negative trend of development and then decrease public subsidy, the stream of public funding will not cease completely as it comes even to the wealthiest neighbourhoods in the form of investment in physical infrastructure and its maintenance, and some social and education institutions. The issue is how to help the stakeholders contribute to the future of their neighbourhood, both giving and taking in meaningful ways.

The target may be defined as "how to give something to the stakeholders so that they become able and willing to contribute more to the common benefit in return"; It is important that stakeholders traditionally seen as "funders" show more involvement other that giving funds (that is often a position of public authorities), and start "receiving" e.g. transferring some of traditionally centralised responsibilities to the neighbourhood level and voluntary effort; and stakeholders traditionally "receiving" (as the unemployed) would give that voluntary effort.

Hence it is important to achieve that everyone contributes – directly or indirectly - to the extent of his capacity and does not feel cheated.