The Atlanta blueprint: Transforming public housing citywide

From Despair to Hope: Hope VI and the New Promise of Public Housing in America's Cities

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 145-167

  Glover, Renée Lewis ^a  

^a Special Needs Assistance Program   (United States)

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1. In 1995, the city of Atlanta recorded 69, 011 crimes; in 2006, it recorded 39, 779 crimes. During the same period, the city's population increased from 404, 337 to 485, 804 persons, causing the crime index per 10, 000 persons to decrease from 1, 707 to 818, or by 52 percent. Crime statistics were derived from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Uniform Crime Reports (www.fbi.gov/ucr/ucr.htm).
2. Frederick Allen, Atlanta Rising: The Invention of an International City 1946-1996 (Marietta, Ga.: Longstreet Press, 1996), p. 232
3. James M. Washington, A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King Jr. (New York: HarperCollins, 1991), p. 121.
4. Charles F. Palmer, Adventures of a Slum Fighter (New York: Van Rees Press, 1955), pp. 136, 237.
5. Crime rate information comes from Thomas D. Boston, "Environment Matters: The Effect of Mixed-Income Revitalization on the Socioeconomic Status of Public Housing Residents, A Case Study of Atlanta", Working Paper 1 (Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Economics, January 2005), p. 13 (www.econ. gatech.edu/faculty/thomas-boston/).
6. Information on median household income comes from Jerry J. Salama, "The Redevelopment of Distressed Public Housing: Early Results from HOPE VI Projects in Atlanta, Chicago, and San Antonio", Housing Policy Debate 10, no. 1(1999), pp. 102, 104. (www.fanniemaefoundation.org/progams/hpd/pdf/hpd- 1001-salama.pdf).
7. Thomas D. Boston, "The Net Social Benefit of Transforming Public Housing Projects into Mixed-Income Communities: A Case Study", paper prepared for the MacArthur Foundation Cost-Benefit Analysis Planning Seminar, Chicago, October 2007.
8. Also, Thomas D. Boston, Benchmarking Family Socioeconomic Progress under MTW: A Case Study of the Atlanta Housing Authority, report prepared for the Atlanta Housing Authority and the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, March 2006, pp. 88 (www.econ. gatech.edu/faculty/thomas-boston/).
9. Thomas D. Boston, "The Benefits and Costs of Reducing Concentrated Poverty: A Case Study of the Villages of East Lake", Working Paper 3 (Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Economics, 2005);
10. Boston, "The Net Social Benefit of Transforming Public Housing Projects into Mixed-Income Communities."
11. Boston, "Environment Matters: The Effect of Mixed-Income Revitalization on the Socioeconomic Status of Public Housing Residents."