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From Urban Institute: Most HOPE VI residents have not moved back. The largest number of families---43 percent---received Housing Choice Vouchers, and another third were still living in traditional public housing. Residents who have moved to the private market or to mixed-income developments reported substantial improvements in the quality of their housing and are living in neighborhoods that are considerably lower poverty. The baseline survey in 2001 showed conditions in these developments were terrible: respondents reported substandard conditions such as peeling paint, mold, inadequate heat, and infestations of cockroaches and other vermin. Some sites have imposed relatively stringent screening criteria that have excluded some former residents. And, on the positive side, many former residents who have received vouchers are satisfied with their new housing and are not interested in returning. Finally, at a few more troubled sites, long histories of mismanagement and neglect mean that residents do not trust the housing authority's promises of better conditions and choose not to return (Buron et al. 2002; Popkin et al. 2004). We find that for the most part, the story for former residents is positive---they are living in better housing in less-troubled neighborhoods.
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