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HOPE VI is a program of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development. It is intended to revitalize the most distressed public housing projects in the United States into mixed-income developments . [ 1 ]
In 1994 the Atlanta Housing Authority, encouraged by the federal HOPE VI program, embarked on a policy created for the purpose of comprehensive revitalization of severely distressed public housing developments. These distressed public housing properties were replaced by mixed-income communities.
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.
Despite this mixed record, in the early 21st century, public-private projects like HOPE VI remained virtually the only housing initiatives that seemed viable. That’s changed in recent years.
During the 1990s, the federal Hope VI program revitalized the Hillside Terrace Housing Project, adding green space and larger porches, and remodeled interiors.
Public and Indian Housing: This office administers the public housing program HOPE VI, the Housing Choice Voucher Program (formerly – yet more popularly – known as Section 8), Project-Based Vouchers, [24] and individual loan programs housing block grants [25] for Native American tribes, Native Hawaiians and Alaskans.
On the national level, concerns about the state of public housing had led Congress to appropriate funds for HOPE VI, a program designed to revitalize public housing. [19] In 1993, Atlanta won the first HOPE VI grant to renovate and modernize Techwood and Clark Howell Homes.