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HOPE VI: On The chopping Block Again

Posted by: Abhijeet Chavan
Thanks to: Karenn Gobrecht
12 March 2005 - 5:00am

Once again HOPE VI is on the chopping block, and this time it appears the Bush administration really means it.

"It seems unlikely that those who favor the program, could muster the political will to save it, given that billions of dollars of other, higher-profile programs -- such as community development block grants -- are also facing the ax...

It is fair to say that HOPE VI is the greatest public policy achievement of New Urbanism to date. Not that new urbanists created the program — they didn’t. But they gave HOPE VI a physical shape that is at the very heart of what makes this program so special."

Full Story: HOPE VI is dead; long live HOPE VI
Source: New Urban News, March 1, 2005
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