Public housing began as a new deal programm that was really curbed. And underwent decades of economic disinvestment and stigmatization. Under clinton, tens of thousands of poor americans had to leave public housing under this programme called hope six. But critically, thanks to a law from the nineties, did not replace them on a one for one basis. There was a huge net reduction in section nine public housing. The hope six programme became a key pieace of the new democrats efforts to change the democratic party's image and secure the support of white, moderate voters. It sought to simultaneously make poor people into market actors, make distressed urban neighborhoods profitable, and use the tools of