7 research outputs found
Building Successful Neighborhoods
Reviews the literature on direct interventions to revitalize distressed neighborhoods by improving housing, schools, and services in terms of basic policy and strategy, programmatic strategies, and building institutional infrastructure
Building Environmentally Sustainable Communities: A Framework for Inclusivity
Reviews literature on past inequitable and unsustainable urban development and visions for linking sustainability, opportunity, and inclusion. Analyzes possible metrics for measuring sustainability and access as well as next steps for policy
Planning the Housing Opportunity and Services Together Demonstration: Challenges and Lessons Learned
Offers insights from designing and implementing a project to address barriers to self-sufficiency among low-income parents, such as poor health and low education levels, while integrating services for children and youth in public and mixed-income housing
Public Housing Transformation and Crime: Making the Case for Responsible Relocation
The research in this article examines the effect on crime rates of public housing transformation in Atlanta and Chicago, focusing on the neighborhoods receiving households relocated with housing vouchers. Modeling the complex relationship between voucher holder locations and crime, using quarterly data, our analysis found that crime rates fell substantially in neighborhoods with public housing demolition, whereas destination neighborhoods experienced a much lesser effect than popular accounts imply. Nevertheless, on average, negative effects emerge for some neighborhoods with modest or high densities of relocated households compared with conditions in areas without relocated households. Overall, we estimate small net decreases citywide in violent crime over study periods during which crime declined significantly. These findings suggest a need for thoughtful relocation strategies that support both assisted residents and receiving communities