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A Decade of HOPE VI

Bruce Katz,
Bruce Katz Founding Director of the Nowak Metro Finance Lab - Drexel University
Jeremy Gustafson,
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Jeremy Gustafson
Karen Destorel Brown,
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Karen Destorel Brown
Margery Austin Turner, Mary K. Cunningham, and
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Mary K. Cunningham
Susan J. Popkin
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Susan J. Popkin Senior Fellow, Metropolitan Housing and Communities Policy Center - The Urban Institute

May 1, 2004

Introduction

Launched in 1992, the $5 billion HOPE VI program represents a dramatic turnaround in public housing policy and one of the most ambitious urban redevelopment efforts in the nation’s history. It replaces severely distressed public housing projects, occupied exclusively by poor families, with redesigned mixed-income housing and provides housing vouchers to enable some of the original residents to rent apartments in the private market. And it has helped transform the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) approach to housing assistance for the poor. This report provides a comprehensive summary of existing research on the HOPE VI program. Its central purpose is to help inform the ongoing debate about the program’s achievements and impacts, and to highlight the lessons it offers for continuing reforms in public housing policy.


View the full report at the Urban Institute website (external link).