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This housing program helped kids escape poverty — by changing who they befriended

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 — ...
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From despair to hope : HOPE VI and the new promise of public housing in America's cities / Henry G. Cisneros, Lora Engdahl, editors

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 ...