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Publication Date: December 1998
Publisher: Furman Center for Real Estate
Author(s): Jerry J Salama
Research Area: Social conditions
Keywords: affordable housing; neighborhoods; public housing; subsidized housing
Type: Article
Abstract:
The redevelopment of distressed public housing under the Urban Revitalization Demonstration Program, or HOPE VI, has laudable social, physical, community, and economic goals. Three public housing projects in Atlanta, Chicago, and San Antonio demonstrate the complexity and trade-offs of trying to lessen the concentration of low-income households, leverage private resources, limit project costs, help residents achieve economic self-sufficiency, design projects that blend into the community, and ensure meaningful resident participation in project planning.