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Distressed Public Housing and HOPE VI Revitalization: An Analysis of Park DuValle in Louisville, Kentucky Author: James Hanlon Dissertation School: University of Kentucky Pages: 352 Publication Date: December 2008 Availability: Abstract: In dozens of cities across the United States, public housing projects characterized by intense concentrations of poverty, high crime rates, and extensive physical deterioration are being revitalized through a U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development program called HOPE VI. This dissertation investigates whether the HOPE VI program, when implemented as intended, better serves or further exacerbates the housing needs of low-income households in the United States. Using Park DuValle, a HOPE VI site in Louisville, Kentucky, as my case study, I provide an assessment of the HOPE VI program that is linked to a comprehensive analysis of the social, economic, and political processes underlying the conditions of public housing distress that HOPE VI seeks to address. This dissertation serves, on the one hand, as a HOPE VI site assessment that measures the effectiveness of public housing revitalization in terms of both the means taken to do so and the conditions upon which those means have been predicated; and on the other, as an interrogation of the underlying premises of HOPE VI that offers insights into the broader implications of the program based on empirical evidence of its implementation and impacts. This dissertation brings to bear upon the HOPE VI program an explicitly historical perspective that entails situating my assessment in relation to social, political, and economic processes that have unfolded over the course of several decades. In addition, by assessing HOPE VI through the lens of a carefully chosen case study, this dissertation adopts an explicitly geographic perspective that focuses on the local articulations and mediations of those processes as they operate through multiple scales. My historical geographical perspective and my reliance on a single case study provide an opportunity to support my findings with a much greater degree of empirical depth than most other assessments of the program have sought to undertake. By adopting this approach, this dissertation makes unique and important contributions to our understanding of the HOPE VI program, its overall benefits, its underlying costs, and its implications for the future of federal low-income housing policy. |
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