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来源

HOUSING STUDIES,Vol.32,Issue2,P.225-244

语言

英文

关键字

Poverty deconcentration; public housing; housing policy; displacement; redevelopment; mixed-income; HOPE-VI; RELOCATION; DISPLACEMENT; GENTRIFICATION; NEIGHBORHOODS; EXPERIENCES; COMMUNITIES; BENEFITS; POVERTY; CHICAGO

作者单位

[Shamsuddin, Shomon] Tufts Univ, Dept Urban & Environm Policy & Planning, Medford, MA 02155 USA. [Vale, Lawrence J.] MIT, Dept Urban Studies & Planning, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA. Shamsuddin, S (reprint author), Tufts Univ, Dept Urban & Environm Policy & Planning, Medford, MA 02155 USA. E-Mail: shomon.shamsuddin@tufts.edu

摘要

Urban restructuring policies have uprooted residents and dismantled communities. Previous studies focus on housing redevelopment that minimizes the fraction of housing units left for poor residents and on interviewing residents only once the redevelopment has been announced. By contrast, this paper examines how residents over time experienced the HOPE VI redevelopment of the Orchard Park public housing project in Boston, which sought to preserve a low-income community. Using official records and a unique set of interviews with residents before and after redevelopment, we find marked declines in crime and increased residential satisfaction, which are attributed to changes in tenant composition. The redevelopment process reduced the total number of public housing units yet maintained the vast majority of housing for poor families while creating a new social mix. The findings suggest that to more fully capture the impacts of restructuring, existing theory must be expanded to consider who is displaced and how poverty is deconcentrated.