Public housing and the legacy of segregation

摘要

During the 1990s, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) initiated the HOPE VI program to address severely distressed public housing along with other programs to deal with poverty concentration. The vision for transforming public housing involves three components: healthy mixed-income housing developments to replace distressed low-income housing projects; housing vouchers for some public housing residents to enable them to move to healthy low-poverty neighborhoods; and self-sufficiency programs such as job training to enable residents to benefit from living in healthy communities.