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The removal of a contractor paid through a Housing and Urban Development Department program highlights difficulties behind the push to rebuild public housing in America.
The newest edition of Cityscape: A Journal of Policy Development and Research discusses methodologies for measuring urban blight. This issue was guest edited by Alexander Din. Across the United States, communities struggle with blighted urban environments and associated negative outcomes, including reduced property values, increased criminal activity, and poor health of residents. Historically, blight has been difficult, labor-intensive, and expensive for researchers to measure. Eric Fesselmeyer and Kiat Ying Seah examine the relationship between inner-city blight and urban sprawl in the ...
The national nonprofit Preservation of Affordable Housing is credited with attracting more than $400 million in investment to Woodlawn since 2011, according to a report by Case Western Reserve University and the University of Illinois Chicago,
A study of a decadelong redevelopment effort by Preservation of Affordable Housing lauds the group, though the local alderman gives it a grade of C.