Study Of Housing Satisfaction

How satisfied are residents with HUD's HOPE VI development? Despite thebillions of dollars spent, very little is known about HOPE VI residential satisfaction. The majority of residents surveyed stated that when compared to their previous environment, they have greater satisfaction with HOPE VI's housing and neighborhood. Residents expressed satisfaction with neighborhood schools, places of worship, public transportation, childcare, medical services, employment, housing, street lighting, cleanliness of area, adult and child recreation, location, and safety ofneighborhood. These attitudes were consistent for both public housing and nonpublic housing residents. Residents did have concerns with adult and childrecreational opportunities, with nearly half showing disapproval of these amenities.

A new academic paper by John Gilderbloom, Ph.D., Michael D. Brazley, Ph.D., AIA, and Zhenfeng Pan evaluates resident's satisfaction with HOPE VI's Park DuValle RevitalizationProject, Louisville Kentucky. The HOPE VI program is not another 'brick and mortar' project; but new and different because it involves physical and social planning to improveboth resident and neighborhood. The physical planning portion of Louisville's Park DuValleHOPE VI Program involves demolishing a existing public housing community of 1,116 families, building a New Urbanism Community of 1,273 families, relocating original public housing residents back into their neighborhood as both renters and homeowners, and attracting mixed-income non-public housing residents into the original neighborhood as both renters and homeowners.

[Editor's note: The link below is to a 200Kb PDF.]

Thanks to John I. Gilderbloom