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Model Behavior

Mixed Income Housing during the 50's and 60's was a very rare occurence. The difficulty arose when trying to concentrate lower and higher income families because there was a racial aspect when discussing the two. And while the idea of Mixed Income Housing did seem rare at the time there were still examples of success with Mixed Income Housing, ex. Jane Jacobs and Greenwich Village.

 


The source for the movement of new urbanization or re-urbanization was caused deterioration of Cabrini Green, physically behaviorally and economically. Many of the high rises that made up Cabrini Green were falling apart. The living conditions were atrocious and quite dangerous. The poverty became more and more concentrated and this was the fault of the Federal Housing authorities who had done little to help the lower income families to escape their current situations. And had isolated these people from mainstream society. "Policies that isolated low income families from the rest of the society left them without models of mainstream behavior and fated their communitiies to rapid destabilization." pg. 123



A new age of economic integration seemed to be the best plan to stabilize Cabrini Green. The goal would be to appeal working middle class in order to spurn an influx of moderate to high income white citizens in this neighborhood. Which then would start a reaction defined by behavioral and economic adjustment out of the lower income or public housing families.  


Financial Sources

Another source behind the desire to create the new Urban Village was a major increase in funds for Public Housing. It promptly unveiled a 1.5 billion plan to demolish every gallery-style public housing high rise in the city while promising not to displace any lease-complient residents" pg. 125 The New Urban Village had the opportunity to emerge because there was an availability of funds which would be used to create a new approach to public housing in North Town Village. This money was also generated by the HOPE VI programs which focused on bettering current public housing projects.


Examples of Mixed Income Housing

Columbia Point housing projects came out of that same movement of re-urbanization of the uninhabitable area of Columbia Point. This movement of re-urbanization driven by the desire to "help" the lower income families economically and socially.  



 http://www.huduser.org/periodicals/cityscpe/vol3num2/success.pdf


 

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