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LINKING HOUSING AND PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN THE HOPE VI PUBLIC HOUSING REVITALIZATION PROGRAM

SWEENEY, STEPHANIE
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1069270986

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2003, MCP, University of Cincinnati, Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning : Community Planning.
A growing body of literature has emerged in recent years examining the feasibility and desirability of economic mixing on a residential basis (Brophy and Smith 1997, Rosenbaum et al. 1998) but little attention has been to the feasibility of this mixing when it involves middle-class families with children. This paper examines school-housing linkages as part of HOPE VI public housing revitalization at City West (Cincinnati, Ohio) and Park DuValle (Louisville, Kentucky). Overall, the study highlights the difficulty of achieving mixing of children from lower- and middle-income homes in schools serving public housing revitalization sites. HOPE VI planners in both cities placed little or no emphasis on attracting of middle-income families with children. Instead, officials emphasized income mixing and improved homeownership opportunities for low and moderate income families. Overall there has been closer housing-schooling cooperation in Louisville than in Cincinnati. Jefferson County Public Schools was highly involved from the start of the HOPE VI application process because the school system had been involved in an earlier Empowerment Zone application. While Cincinnati Public Schools was not involved at all in the early plans for City West, it became involved during the implementation phase because CPS was conducting its own facilities master planning process. While Park DuValle has attracted many middle-income families with children, all of the middle-income families moving into City West have been childless. Park DuValle’s success is largely due to the fact that Louisville’s schools are part of a county-wide school system based on busing. Unlike other cities, families considering moving to Park DuValle are not influenced by perceptions of neighborhood school quality; they know that their children will be bused to a school outside the neighborhood. Because Louisville’s countywide school system is so unique among American cities, it may be difficult to replicate Louisville’s success elsewhere.
David Edelman (Advisor)
204 p.
public housing, Louisville, Kentucky; public housing, Cincinnati, Ohio; Cincinnati Public Schools; Jefferson County Public Schools; HOPE VI

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  • SWEENEY, S. (2003). LINKING HOUSING AND PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN THE HOPE VI PUBLIC HOUSING REVITALIZATION PROGRAM [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1069270986

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • SWEENEY, STEPHANIE. LINKING HOUSING AND PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN THE HOPE VI PUBLIC HOUSING REVITALIZATION PROGRAM. 2003. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1069270986.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • SWEENEY, STEPHANIE. "LINKING HOUSING AND PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN THE HOPE VI PUBLIC HOUSING REVITALIZATION PROGRAM." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1069270986

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