Research Report Linking Public Housing Revitalization to Neighborhood School Improvement
Martin D. Abravanel, Robin E. Smith, Elizabeth Cove
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A 2007 proposal to reauthorize HUDs HOPE VI public housing revitalization program requires local housing agencies to establish partnerships with school superintendents. The purpose is to devise comprehensive educational reform and achievement strategies for improving schools serving HOPE VI neighborhoods. Five situations where HOPE VI revitalization and school improvement have already occurred, however, suggest wide variation; each was context-sensitive and tended to be an opportunistic experiment cut from different cloth. Absent a uniform model, there is a need to know more about what incentives, which local stakeholders, and what kinds of partnerships produce improved educational outcomes before establishing uniform requirements.
Research Areas Education Children and youth Housing
Tags Federal housing programs and policies K-12 education Neighborhoods and youth development