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HOPE VI makes use of New Urbanism principles, meaning that communities must be dense, pedestrian-friendly, and transit-accessible. Housing is rarely built as apartments. Instead, private houses, duplexes and, especially for public housing projects, row houses are prefer
The East Lake Meadows public housing project was a 654 unit community built in 1971 and was one of the most infamous of all of Atlanta's public housing. [7] At the time the nation's largest turnkey project, [8] East Lake Meadows was immediately plagued by maintenance problems due to poor construction. [7]
The Hope VI program, created in 1992, was initiated in response to the physical deterioration of public housing units. The program rebuilds housing projects with an emphasis on mixed-income developments rather than projects which concentrate poorer households in one area. [67]
City West, a $200 million mega-project born from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's Hope VI program, was always meant to offer an array of housing options at all price points.
Those now-dilapidated projects are being rebuilt with a HOPE VI revitalization effort, and applying principles of New Urbanism into its design. The new Park DuValle neighborhood, a $200 million investment of public and private funds covering 125 acres (0.51 km 2 ), once dominated by 1100 public housing units, is being transformed into a mixed ...
In 1992 the horror film Candyman was released, the story taking place at the housing project. In 1994 Chicago received one of the first HOPE VI (Housing Opportunities for People Everywhere) grants to redevelop Cabrini–Green as a mixed-income neighborhood. [12] On September 27, 1995 demolition began. [13]
Administered by the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles, Pueblo del Sol occupies the Los Angeles River-side site of the former Aliso Village housing project. Under the HOPE VI grant program introduced by the Clinton administration, the Garden City-influenced Aliso Village was demolished and replaced by a New Urbanist development ...
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