Renewing the Commitment to Lifting People Out of Poverty through Public Housing

Urban Land Magazine:

Over the past 20 years, mixed-income communities have increasingly come to replace the public housing projects that were built in the aftermath of World War II with good intentions but by the 1980s had become high-rise traps for families seeking to escape poverty. The vision behind mixed-income development was that it led low-income people to better opportunities—through locations in stable and safe neighborhoods; access to jobs, transportation, amenities, better schools, and health care; and proximity to and social networks with middle-class neighbors.

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