In the 1990s, Congress created HOPE VI, a program that demolished old public housing projects and replaced them with more up-to-date ones. But the... This housing program helped kids escape poverty — ...

Foreword / Kurt L. Schmoke -- Acknowledgements -- Program origins and defining principles -- A new moment for people and cities / Henry Cisneros -- The origins of HOPE VI / Bruce Katz -- The evolution ...

One popular strain of urban-policy thinking opposes gentrification—the arrival of affluent people into poor neighborhoods—and argues that poverty should be rectified by ever greater expenditure on ...

At the heart of the American dream is the promise of upward mobility. Some neighborhoods make that easier. Some don't. And why is that? Well, NPR's Greg Rosalsky writes the Planet Money Newsletter, ...

America’s era of big public housing projects was a grand experiment whose period of favor was remarkably short-lived. The austere, often high-rise complexes rose across US cities in a few decades, ...

The American dream is a promise of upward mobility, and it turns out that some neighborhoods make that easier. Others don't. Greg Rosalsky writes the Planet Money Newsletter, and he's got the story of ...