The elimination of a rule that every public housing unit destroyed has to be replaced by a newly built unit was critical. That's what allows HOPE 6 to achieve a net reduction in the number of public housing units. The one-for-one replacement rule, which had been in place for a couple of decades, was seen as a major obstacle to redevelopment. Most displaced people moved to other poor and black neighborhoods; there wasn't much poverty deconcentration.
Featuring Edward Goetz on his book New Deal Ruins: Race, Economic Justice, and Public Housing Policy. Goetz tells the story of American public housing and then its destruction and dismantling, which took off in the 1980s and accelerated during the 90s under the Clinton Administration’s Hope VI program.
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