january february 2004 issue | We The People Media

Clock Ticking for HOPE VI Projects

January 15th, 2004

Public housing agencies nationwide risk losing their federal funding for redevelopment projects if their projects are not on schedule, according to the U.S. Housing and Urban Development Department recently.

Will the CHA lose their HOPE VI money, too?

HUD Takes Back HOPE VI Funds
In August 2003, HUD took back a $6.4 million Homeownership and Opportunity for People Everywhere (HOPE VI) grant for demolition from the Housing Authority of Portland, Oregon for not meeting the deadline for its public housing redevelopment plans.
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Report: Residents Steered to Poor Areas

by Ethan Michaeli, Publisher

January 5th, 2004

A new report finds that the Chicago Housing Authority is not making promised improvements to its “Plan for Transformation,” the ongoing, massive effort to redevelop virtually all of the city’s public housing stock.

Sudhir Venkatesh, a sociologist at Columbia University and a board member of We The People Media, discovered that the agency has largely failed to stop the flow of residents into other low-income, African American neighborhoods. In a new top-to-bottom review of the third year of the Plan for Transformation, Venkatesh found CHA has not kept its promise to care for those individuals and families who were living off the lease, the so-called squatters.
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Tags: American Project, CHA, Chicago, Chicago Housing Authority, Commonwealth Edison, Gautreaux, january february 2004 issue, low-income residents, mixed income communities, Plan for Transformation, public housing, redevelopment, relocation, Robert Taylor Homes, Venkatesh
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Clock Ticking for HOPE VI Projects

Report: Residents Steered to Poor Areas

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