Public Housing and the Legacy of Segregation
Turner, Margery Austin / Popkin, Susan J. / Rawlings, Lynette A.
For the past two decades the United States has been transforming distressed public housing communities, with three ambitious goals: replace distressed developments with healthy mixed-income communities, help residents relocate to affordable housing, often in the private market, and empower former public housing families toward economic self-sufficiency. The transformation has focused on deconcentrating poverty, but not on the underlying role o...