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The success of the mixed-use, mixed-income Columbia Point Housing Projects on [[Columbia Point (Boston)|Columbia Point]] in Boston, Massachusetts inspired and contributed to development of the HOPE VI model.<ref name="Roessner">Cf. Roessner, p.293. "The HOPE VI housing program, inspired in part by the success of Harbor Point, was created by legislation passed by Congress in 1992."</ref> Built in 1954, and consisting of approximately 1,500 apartment units, these apartments had fallen into disrepair and become dangerous as a center of crime and dysfunction. By the 1980s, only 300 families remained in the complex, where the buildings were falling apart. | The success of the mixed-use, mixed-income Columbia Point Housing Projects on [[Columbia Point (Boston)|Columbia Point]] in Boston, Massachusetts inspired and contributed to development of the HOPE VI model.<ref name="Roessner">Cf. Roessner, p.293. "The HOPE VI housing program, inspired in part by the success of Harbor Point, was created by legislation passed by Congress in 1992."</ref> Built in 1954, and consisting of approximately 1,500 apartment units, these apartments had fallen into disrepair and become dangerous as a center of crime and dysfunction. By the 1980s, only 300 families remained in the complex, where the buildings were falling apart. | ||
Eventually, realizing the situation was almost hopeless, in 1984 Boston turned over the management, cleanup, planning, and revitalization of the property to a private development firm, Corcoran-Mullins-Jennison, that won a competition for the project. The construction work for the new Harbor Point development began in 1986 and was completed by 1990. It was developed as a mixed-income community, called Harbor Point Apartments.<ref> | Eventually, realizing the situation was almost hopeless, in 1984 Boston turned over the management, cleanup, planning, and revitalization of the property to a private development firm, Corcoran-Mullins-Jennison, that won a competition for the project. The construction work for the new Harbor Point development began in 1986 and was completed by 1990. It was developed as a mixed-income community, called Harbor Point Apartments.<ref>The New York Times, [https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE1DB103BF930A15752C1A967958260 "Boston War Zone Becomes Public Housing Dream"], November 23, 1991</ref> | ||
Congress established the National Commission on Severely Distressed Public Housing in 1989 to study the issue of dilapidated public housing. After it submitted the report to Congress in 1992, legislation creating the HOPE VI grants was drafted and passed.<ref name="nlihc">{{cite web|url= http://www.nlihc.org/detail/article.cfm?article_id=2772&id=46|title= HOPE VI|publisher= National Low Income Housing Coalition|date= 2007-03-01|url-status= dead|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070927203142/http://www.nlihc.org/detail/article.cfm?article_id=2772&id=46|archive-date= 2007-09-27}}</ref> One of the first HOPE VI pilot grants, which in the first year of the program were $50m before being reduced in future years, was given to the [[Atlanta Housing Authority]] (AHA) in 1993. Other housing authorities that received pilot grants included Baltimore and New Haven. | Congress established the National Commission on Severely Distressed Public Housing in 1989 to study the issue of dilapidated public housing. After it submitted the report to Congress in 1992, legislation creating the HOPE VI grants was drafted and passed.<ref name="nlihc">{{cite web|url= http://www.nlihc.org/detail/article.cfm?article_id=2772&id=46|title= HOPE VI|publisher= National Low Income Housing Coalition|date= 2007-03-01|url-status= dead|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070927203142/http://www.nlihc.org/detail/article.cfm?article_id=2772&id=46|archive-date= 2007-09-27}}</ref> One of the first HOPE VI pilot grants, which in the first year of the program were $50m before being reduced in future years, was given to the [[Atlanta Housing Authority]] (AHA) in 1993. Other housing authorities that received pilot grants included Baltimore and New Haven. | ||