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Linda Couch, deputy director of the National Low Income Housing Coalition, says residents are right to be wary, given the history of public housing rehab. “They should make sure relocation and rehousing plans are as detailed and transparent as possible,” she says.

City Limits Magazine


May/June 2005:
Attention New York Shoppers:

Even well-planned relocation will inevitably leave some people out, argues Susan Popkin, research associate at the nonprofit Urban Institute, who has studied the impact of HOPE VI reconstruction. “It’s an open secret that there are all kinds of people living in public housing who aren’t on the lease.”

Nearly every resident City Limits spoke with said the benefits of the renovation were outweighed by its human cost. “To be honest, I’m against the whole darn thing,” says Effie Jones, vice president of the Ingersoll tenant association. “We feel like we’re being pushed out of our homes.”