In the 1960s, many believed that the civil rights movement's successes would foster a new
era of racial equality in America. Four decades later, the degree of racial inequality has …

Moving to Opportunity tackles one of America's most enduring dilemmas: the great,
unresolved question of how to overcome persistent ghetto poverty. Launched in 1994, the …

The HOPE VI programme in the US displaces tens of thousands of low-income households
to disperse pockets of poverty and transform sites ofseverely distressed'public housing into …

In recent years, concerned governments, businesses, and civic groups have launched
ambitious programs of community development designed to halt, and even reverse …

This study examines the early effects of seven scattered-site public housing developments
on the receiving neighborhoods in Yonkers, New York, where opposition to court-ordered …

Cities in the US have become home to an increasing concentration of poor households,
disproportionately composed of racial and ethnic minorities. In the US, poor and minority …

Problem, research strategy, and findings: American public housing since 1937 is often
viewed as a single failed experiment of architecture, management, and policy. This view …

Constant revolutionizing of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social relations,
everlasting uncertainty and agitation, distinguish the bourgeois epoch from all earlier times …

This article addresses the extent to which housing market constraints contribute to spatial
stratification of the US population by income and race. Differential patterns of residence …

This article provides a practitioner's view of proposals and efforts to revitalize the most
distressed housing communities under the Urban Revitalization Demonstration (URD) …