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The Effect of HOPE-VI Redevelopment on Community Dynamics and Social Isolation Author: Laura Tach Dissertation School: President and Fellows of Harvard College Pages: 54 Publication Date: 11/2006 Availability: Access Number: 5014 Abstract: In the past several decades, a growing body of academic and policy research has documented the deteriorating living conditions in our nation's public housing projects. Residents of these housing projects often live in areas of highly concentrated poverty that are associated with a host of negative outcomes, including high levels of unemployment, welfare receipt, teenage childbearing, and drug use (Crane, 1991; Jargowsky and Bane, 1991). Dissatisfaction with the physical and social state of public housing was the motivation behind the 1992 HOPE-VI Urban Revitalization Demonstration, which has provided $4.5 billion over 10 years to a) physically revitalize the most distressed public housing into mixed-income communities and b) to foster the self-sufficiency and empowerment of its residents (Senate Committee on Appropriations, 1992). This social revitalization was to be accomplished through service provision and community building activities, which fight poverty by building social and human capital (Naparstek et al, 1997, 2000). While researchers have documented the success of HOPE-VI in physically revitalizing communities (Popkin et al, 2004; Brophy and Smith, 1997) and examined the successes and hardships faced by individual residents (Popkin and Katz, 2004), less focus has been placed on community-level outcomes in HOPE-VI developments, which are a major component of HOPE-VI redevelopment goals. This paper addresses this gap by exploring social capital and community dynamics in a Boston HOPE-VI development. |
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