Public housing's cinderella: Policy dynamics of HOPE VI in the mid-1990s

Where are Poor People to Live?: Transforming Public Housing Communities: Transforming Public Housing Communities

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 41-67

  Zhang, Yan ^a   Weismann, Gretchen ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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References (8)

1. John W. Kingdon, Agendas, Alternatives, and Public Policies (1984; New York: HarperCollins, 2003).
2. Housing and Urban Development, HOPE VI: Lessons Learned and Best Practices, 1992-2002 (Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, 2002).
3. Housing and Urban Development, HOPE VI: Building Communities, Transforming Lives (Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, 1999), p. 6. In the same publication (p. 4), President Clinton is also quoted as saying: "HUD's HOPE VI grants are a step toward achieving my Administration's goal of helping people help themselves to improve their lives and their communities through hard work. By providing job training and improving the quality, management, and safety of public housing, we are giving hope to communities that have previously known despair. "
4. National Housing Law Project et al., "False HOPE: A Critical Assessment of the HOPE VI Public Housing Redevelopment Program, " June 2002, I, www.nhlp.org/ html/pubhsg/Falseope.pda.
5. The number was based on an estimate made by Abt Associates Inc. in 1987 of the number of public housing units with high modernization needs. National Commission on Severely Distressed Public Housing, The Final Report of the National Commission on Severely Distressed Public Housing: A Report to the Congress and the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, 1992); National Commission on Severely Distressed Public Housing, Case Study and Site Examination Reports of the National Commission on Severely Distressed Public Housing (Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, 1992).
6. The number was based on an estimate made by Abt Associates Inc. in 1987 of the number of public housing units with high modernization needs. National Commission on Severely Distressed Public Housing, The Final Report of the National Commission on Severely Distressed Public Housing: A Report to the Congress and the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, 1992); National Commission on Severely Distressed Public Housing, Case Study and Site Examination Reports of the National Commission on Severely Distressed Public Housing (Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, 1992).
7. William Julius Wilson, The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987).
8. Randy Weaver, Ending Welfare As We Know It. (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2000).