Movin' On Up: Comprehensive Affordable Housing and Resident Socioeconomic Mobility.
Feliz, Jaissa.
2018
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Comprehensive affordable housing integrates social services in affordable housing developments in a place-based manner. Housing and social policies have created neighborhoods of concentrated poverty where socioeconomic opportunity is scarce, and the central argument of this work is that the issues associated with concentrated poverty require a concentrated solution. To that end, this work explores ... read morethe potential of comprehensive affordable housing developments as a place-based approach to combating the low levels of employment, earnings and educational attainment that plague low-income neighborhoods by combining social services as an integral part of affordable housing. The work examines approaches to comprehensive affordable housing developments that vary by ownership structures, funding mechanisms and service delivery models. We explore the case study of Quincy Heights - a comprehensive affordable housing development in Dorchester, Massachusetts - to examine its key features and to learn what it can tell us about comprehensive affordable housing developments. The Quincy Heights case study demonstrated the value of strategic partnerships and the early integration of resident service financing within the development's operating budget, among other lessons.
Thesis (M.A.)--Tufts University, 2018.
Submitted to the Dept. of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning.
Advisor: Penn Loh.
Committee: Rosalind Greenstein.
Keywords: Urban planning, and Social work.read less - ID:
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