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Mixed-Income Development: Research Findings and Strategic Implications

This research paper discusses the findings and strategic implications of mixed-income development in Chicago, highlighting the benefits and challenges for residents and providing key strategic decisions for promoting social mobility, sustaining well-functioning developments, and building community.

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Mixed-Income Development: Research Findings and Strategic Implications

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  1. Mixed-Income Development in Chicago: Research Findings and Strategic Implications Mark L. Joseph Case Western Reserve University Neighborhoods of Choice and Opportunity Forum HUD-PD&R/CLPHA March 16, 2011

  2. Outline • 1) Preview main conclusions and implications • 2) Highlight key research findings • 3) Highlight implications for strategic decisions

  3. Conclusions • Mixed-income development has unique promise as a poverty deconcentration strategy • Implementation deeply complicated • Benefits to residents exist, but not clear cut • Physical revitalization is just the beginning • Building community and changing life trajectories will require sustained, comprehensive, strategic effort

  4. Research on Implementation Process • Complexity of development process • Strength of early market demand • Impact of current housing market crisis • Challenge of relocating/recruiting public housing residents

  5. Research on Resident Experiences Positive • High satisfaction with physical environment • Reductions in stress associated with safety and social disorder • Some articulation of increased aspirations

  6. Research on Resident Experiences Challenges • Increased stress: rules, monitoring, norms • Low social interaction, some self-isolation • Public space, unsupervised children • Sense of stigma, perceptions of difference: “us vs. them dynamics”

  7. Key Strategic Decisions • Promoting social and economic mobility: • “housing plus” • Who benefits? Screening v. inclusion • Is raising return rates a goal?

  8. Key Strategic Decisions • Promoting and sustaining well-functioning developments • Stimulating market demand: seeking “right” mix • Safety and social control: whose responsibility? whose rules? • Neighborhood amenities: often a missing piece • Inclusive governance: voice and representation for all

  9. Key Strategic Decisions • From building housing to building community • Goals • Clarify goals, expectations and roles • Identifying shared interests, countering “us vs. them” • Strategies • Design: Buildings and open space • Property management • Inclusive services and amenities • Support for “positive neighboring”

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