scholarly journals Bringing Researchers And Community Developers Together To Revitalize A Public Housing Project And Improve Health

2011 ◽  
Vol 30 (11) ◽  
pp. 2072-2078 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas P. Jutte ◽  
Kaja Z. LeWinn ◽  
Malo A. Hutson ◽  
Ramie Dare ◽  
Janet Falk
Keyword(s):  
Public Housing ◽  
Housing Project ◽  
Public Housing Project ◽  
Improve Health

The Rise of Urban Renewal and the Connie Chambers Project

2018 ◽  
pp. 233-256
Author(s):  
Lawrence J. Vale
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Public Housing ◽  
New Orleans ◽  
Urban Renewal ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Mexican American ◽  
Housing Project ◽  
Public Housing Project ◽  
Housing Growth

Chapters 8 and 9 consider the case of Tucson, which reveals a third possible approach to public housing governance and redevelopment, typifying the Publica Major constellation. This shows what can happen when responsibility for public housing remains more wholly vested in a well-functioning public sector, subject neither to the whims of private developers, as in New Orleans, nor to the sway of empowered low-income tenants, as in Boston. Chapter 8 narrates the complex and reluctant emergence of Tucson’s two-hundred-unit Connie Chambers public housing project, completed in 1967 as a supplement to an earlier project known as La Reforma. Public housing growth remained inseparable from the deeply contested process of urban renewal that decimated eighty acres of the Mexican American downtown barrio and purged its residents. Those contemplating redevelopment of Connie Chambers, which was forged in lingering controversy, knew that they could not repeat the earlier ethnically motivated displacement.

Emerging Spaces of Neoliberalism: A Gated Town and a Public Housing Project in İstanbul

2008 ◽  
Vol 39 ◽  
pp. 5-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ayfer Bartu Candan ◽  
Biray Kolluoğlu
Keyword(s):  
Public Housing ◽  
Urban Governance ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Housing Project ◽  
Domestic Sphere ◽  
Public Housing Project ◽  
Neoliberal Restructuring ◽  
Urban Fear ◽  
Urban Marginality ◽  
The City

Abstractİstanbul has undergone a neoliberal restructuring over the past two decades. In this paper, we focus on two urban spaces that we argue to have emerged as part of this process—namely Göktürk, a gated town, and Bezirganbahçe, a public housing project. We examine these spaces as showcases of new forms of urban wealth and poverty in İstanbul, demonstrating the workings of the neoliberalization process and the forms of urbanity that emerge within this context. These are the two margins of the city whose relationship with the center is becoming increasingly tenuous in qualitatively different yet parallel forms. In Göktürk's segregated compounds, where urban governance is increasingly privatized, non-relationality with the city, seclusion into the domestic sphere and the family, urban fear and the need for security, and social and spatial isolation become the markers of a new urbanity. In Bezirganbahçe, involuntary isolation and insulation, and non-relationality with the city imposed through the reproduction of poverty create a new form of urban marginality marked by social exclusion and ethnic tensions. The new forms of wealth and poverty displayed in these two urban spaces, accompanied by the social and spatial segregation of these social groups, compel us to think about future forms of urbanity and politics in İstanbul.

More than Bricks and Mortar: Neighborhood Frames, Social Processes, and the Mixed–Income Redevelopment of a Public Housing Project

2009 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 269-299 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura M. Tach
Keyword(s):  
Social Organization ◽  
Public Housing ◽  
Social Isolation ◽  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Structural Characteristics ◽  
Housing Project ◽  
High Poverty ◽  
Public Housing Project ◽  
Public Housing Residents ◽  
Mixed Income

Policy initiatives to deconcentrate poverty through mixed–income redevelopment were motivated in part by the desire to reduce social isolation and social disorganization in high–poverty neighborhoods. This article examines whether the presence of higher–income neighbors decreased social isolation or improved social organization in a Boston public housing project that was redeveloped into a HOPE VI mixed–income community. Based on in–depth interviews and neighborhood observation, I find that it was the lower–income former public housing residents who were primarily involved in creating neighborhood–based social ties, providing and receiving social support, and enforcing social control within the neighborhood, rather than the higher–income newcomers. This variation in neighborhood engagement stemmed from the different ways that long–term and newer residents perceived and interpreted their neighborhood surroundings. These differences were generated by residents’ comparisons of current and past neighborhood environments and by neighborhood reputations. Residents’ perceptions of place may thus influence whether mixed–income redevelopment can reduce social isolation and improve social organization in high–poverty neighborhoods and, more generally, whether changes in neighborhood structural characteristics translate into changes in social dynamics.

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