This study identifies and measures the demonstrable changes to local political economies that can be reasonably attributed to HOPE VI redevelopments. It examines the extent to which the developments have contributed to increases in surrounding property values, decreases in serious crimes,...

Foreword / Raphael W. Bostic -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Great Migration: welcome to the promised land -- Chapter 2. The land boom of the Roaring Twenties -- Chapter 3. The Great Depression: the end of banking as they knew it -- Chapter 4. The Home Owners' Loan...

<title>Abstract</title> Neighborhoods surrounding large public housing developments have historically been economically distressed. The revitalization of many developments through the federal HOPE VI program, in conjunction with increased inner‐city lending and a strong economy for much of the 1990s, should...