The failed $3 trillion budget that President Bush attempted to pass made no appropriations for the HOPE VI program for fiscal year 2009, which would effectively kill the program.
John McIlwain argues on the Ground Floor that we must keep this program to continue to eliminate the poorly designed and mismanaged housing projects that continue to blight our inner-city neighborhoods.
HOPE VI currently has $198 million available for projects - $98 million carried over from fiscal year 2007 and $100 million appropriated for 2008.
The HOPE VI program is administered by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and is used to replace bleak, unsafe projects with mixed-income development.
Local examples of the program in action include City West in the West End, the Villages of Daybreak in Bond Hill and Liberty Row in Newport.
Thursday, February 21, 2008
The Ground Floor: HOPE VI zeroed out in FY2009 budget
