The reason that section 8 residents were not able to move into the new housing projects that replaced the old was that they were tricked. they thought that they could move in once the new projects were completed but their turned out to be restrictions. And what were these onerous restrictions? Apparently they were expected to have a job.
Residents were asked to help name the new developments and consult on the architectural plans. Yet to move back in, residents had to meet strict criteria: if they were not seniors, they had to be working, or in school, or on disability. Their children could not be delinquent in school. Most public-housing residents were scared off by the criteria, or couldn’t meet them, or else they’d already moved and didn’t want to move again. The new HOPE VI developments aimed to balance Section8 and market-rate residents, but this generally hasn’t happened. In Memphis, the rate of former public-housing residents moving back in is 5 percent. |
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