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How Public Housing Cuts Increased Homelessness

In the late 1990s, President Bill Clinton and Congress passed laws that cut public housing funding and froze the number of units at 1999 levels.¹ These changes came through the Quality Housing and Work Responsibility Act and its Faircloth Amendment.² Policymakers capped new construction and ended the rule that required one-for-one replacement of demolished units.³ Over the next decade, experts…

How Public Housing Cuts Increased Homelessness

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Excerpts from “Architortural Project Proposals” from my Architorture series on the HOPE VI initiative’s leeway in Chicago. 

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US Poverty Rate Hasn't Changed in 50 Years; How Can We Address It?

US Poverty Rate Hasn’t Changed in 50 Years; How Can We Address It?

During a speech at Georgetown University this past May, President Obama voiced the need to resume the War on Poverty, expressing the 40% drop in the poverty rate since its inception. It is true that in 1950 the poverty rate stood at a staggering 32.3%, but the fact that the percentage of those in poverty has remained the same since the mid 1960’s at around 15% is troublesome. It isn’t that there…

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Beecher Terrace is about to change, but will it really solve the problem?

Beecher Terrace is about to change, but will it really solve the problem?

This month, the federal department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) awarded a $425,000 Choice Neighborhoods planning grant to the Louisville Metro Housing Authority (LMHA) in the agency’s efforts to revitalize the Beecher Terrace public housing complex and surrounding Russellneighborhood. There’s no confusion surrounding Louisville’s feelings towards Beecher Terrace, and public housing in…

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