Building Community during Hope VI Redevelopment
Lessons from a Seattle Case Study
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19003701 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Carolina Reid (0000-0002-1315-6413, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, corresponding author), Carolina Katz Reid, E Liebow (0000-0002-1101-629X, Battelle), Gabrielle O’Malley (0000-0002-7514-8240, University of Washington) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 65 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 192-202 |
| Publication date | 2006-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Human Organization (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-7259 • E-ISSN: 1938-3517 |
| Publisher | Society for Applied Anthropology (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.17730/humo.65.2.8aled5cqyl33l22n |
| OpenAlex | W2047476513 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
In the United States, government policies concerning public housing changed dramatically in the early 1990s, leading to the passage of HOPE VI, an ambitious program aimed at overhauling the nation’s most distressed public housing developments. One distinctive feature of HOPE VI is that it incorporates a community and supportive services component designed to help raise the incomes of public residents and move them on a path towards financial self-sufficiency. This paper provides a detailed look at the community building and supportive services efforts at Rainier Vista, a HOPE VI redevelopment project in Seattle, Washington. Due to a unique set of circumstances, when granted a HOPE VI award, Rainier Vista was already part of Jobs-Plus, a demonstration project that aimed to increase the earnings of public housing residents. As a result, the staff at Rainier Vista had thought extensively about community and supportive services in advance of receiving the HOPE VI grant, already implementing innovative communi
Economic growth · Economics · Environmental planning · Government (linguistics) · Local government · Political science · Public housing · Public relations · Public work · Redevelopment · Sociology · Urban regeneration · Housing Market and Economics · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Public Administration · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,19 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2016 (7) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |