Building on lessons learned : too high hopes without HOPE VI?

By providing substantial grants to public housing authorities to demolish and rebuild distressed public housing and provide services to public housing residents, the HOPE VI program has helped transform these developments and their surrounding communities since 1992. HOPE VI has not only brought public and private investment to distressed neighborhoods but also has played an important role in increasing development capacity for housing authorities and HUD. In spite of the successful completion of many projects in the last decade, arguments have been made that HOPE VI is not only too expensive and too slow but is no longer needed. Housing advocates have also argued that there are programmatic flaws that must be reformed. The Bush Administration has sought to cut HOPE VI from the federal budget for the last four fiscal years. Congress has reinstated it each year, albeit at lower and lower funding levels, but the future of HOPE VI is uncertain at best. As the only funding program specifically designed to meet the needs of distressed public housing and its very low-income residents, HOPE VI is not easily replaced.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2006

Author dc:creator

• Wang, Kristen J

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Langley Keyes.

• Urban Studies and Planning.

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