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Deconcentration and Social Capital: Contradictions of a Poverty Alleviation Policy

Deconcentration and Social Capital: Contradictions of a Poverty Alleviation Policy Deconcentration is a policy aimed at reducing poverty by relocating residents of distressed public housing complexes into private mixed income neighborhoods. This change is presumed to offer new social opportunities and better public facilities that can facilitate improved economic status. HOPE VI is a federal U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) program, which has effected this policy in a large number of U.S. cities. This paper reports the findings from research in two relocation sites (high and low poverty) in Tampa, Florida, based on interviews with HOPE VI relocatees and their homeowning neighbors. Results indicate that relocation does not enhance social capital for former public housing residents. Social networks are diminished in comparison with prior conditions in public housing. There is very little interaction with homeowners in relocation sites, and considerable resistance by homeowners. Relocatee satisfaction with housing is greater in the low poverty site, but social networks are not different across sites. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal Of Poverty Taylor & Francis

Deconcentration and Social Capital: Contradictions of a Poverty Alleviation Policy

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Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Copyright
Copyright 2008 by The Haworth Press. All rights reserved.
ISSN
1540-7608
eISSN
1087-5549
DOI
10.1080/10875540801973609
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Abstract

Deconcentration is a policy aimed at reducing poverty by relocating residents of distressed public housing complexes into private mixed income neighborhoods. This change is presumed to offer new social opportunities and better public facilities that can facilitate improved economic status. HOPE VI is a federal U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) program, which has effected this policy in a large number of U.S. cities. This paper reports the findings from research in two relocation sites (high and low poverty) in Tampa, Florida, based on interviews with HOPE VI relocatees and their homeowning neighbors. Results indicate that relocation does not enhance social capital for former public housing residents. Social networks are diminished in comparison with prior conditions in public housing. There is very little interaction with homeowners in relocation sites, and considerable resistance by homeowners. Relocatee satisfaction with housing is greater in the low poverty site, but social networks are not different across sites.

Journal

Journal Of PovertyTaylor & Francis

Published: Jun 5, 2008

Keywords: Deconcentration; HOPE VI; poverty; urban neighborhoods

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