Affordable Housing Institute : US

[Continued from the previous Part 1 and Part 2.]
 
So far, in deconstructing the lengthy Atlantic article about deconcentrating poverty by demolishing public housing and giving residents economic mobility, an article whose premises I find somewhere between flawed and offensive, although they are unstated, indirect, and hard-to-pin-down. 
 

Cough up that theory now, there’s a good […]

 [Continued from yesterday’s Part 1.]
 
Yesterday we started digging into an 8,500 word Atlantic article that never quite has the courage of its convictions.  Echoing the Duke of Wellington’s lament about the railways –
 
“[Railroads will] only encourage the common people to move about needlessly.”
The Duke of Wellington, 1835
 

Imagine having to sit among them
 
– it wants […]

 
“[Railroads will] only encourage the common people to move about needlessly.”
The Duke of Wellington, 1835
 

 
There is much to admire in the Iron Duke, but when it came to the Iron Horse, no matter how dismissive, he was imperiously, dismissively, magisterially wrong.  Railways created mobility and opportunity, and the common people took advantage of it to […]

[Continued from Part 1 and Part 2 ]
 
In our examination of Harvard doctoral candidate Laura Tach’s remarkable findings that in HOPE VI properties, incumbent holdovers do not mix with newcomers, largely because the newcomers see things as improved from the past whereas newcomers see the same things as the past continuing into the present.
 

“The future becomes […]

[Continued from yesterday’s Part 1.]
 
Yesterday’s post started with the question of residents’ perceptions of a neighborhood change, particularly when it undergoes comprehensive redevelopment as in HOPE VI.  Do people see the changes?  How do they interpret what they see?
 

HOPE VI: Orchard Gardens, Boston, with the new home-style houses in the foreground
 
To begin with, it’s hard […]