Atlanta Housing - Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta Housing - Georgia Institute of Technology
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d. Create new housing developments and subsidize housing opportunities<br />
through public/private partnerships using mixed funding sources and market<br />
rate principles.<br />
e. Assist residents in attaining their life goals and in achieving self-sufficiency and<br />
educational advancement.<br />
The report also provides answers to the following questions: When public housing projects<br />
were demolished, did families relocate to better neighborhoods? Did mandatory work<br />
compliance policies increase employment, household income and other indicators <strong>of</strong><br />
household mobility? Did access to better housing options in higher quality neighborhoods<br />
improve upward mobility? Finally, did the demolition <strong>of</strong> Grady and other public housing<br />
developments increase the risk to families <strong>of</strong> losing housing assistance?<br />
Grady Revitalization as part <strong>of</strong> AHA’s MTW Program<br />
Grady revitalization was not an isolated event. Instead it was part <strong>of</strong> an all-encompassing<br />
strategy AHA refers to as The CATALYST Plan, or more simply CATALYST. It is the blueprint for<br />
AHA’s Moving to Work (MTW) Demonstration Program.<br />
Congress enacted the MTW program in 1996 and HUD implemented the program in 1999.<br />
Today, only 33 <strong>of</strong> the nation's 3,300 <strong>Housing</strong> Authorities have been selected to participate in<br />
the MTW program. The 33 PHAs however managed over 11% and 13% <strong>of</strong> all public housing<br />
units and housing vouchers respectively. Together they account for $2.7 billion in voucher<br />
funding, $730 million in public housing operating fund and $180 million in capital funds 1 . MTW<br />
status gives public housing authorities exemptions and waivers that allow them to the flexibility<br />
to use their funding to design and test innovative approaches to delivering housing assistance<br />
to low-income families; approaches that are tied more closely to local conditions and<br />
circumstances. A caveat <strong>of</strong> MTW selection is that housing authorities must provide, "assistance<br />
to substantially the same total number <strong>of</strong> eligible low-income families as would have been<br />
served had the funding amounts not been combined.” 2<br />
1 Emily Cadik and A. Nogic, Report to Congress. Moving to Work: Interim Policy Applications and the<br />
Future <strong>of</strong> the Demonstration (HUD, Office <strong>of</strong> Policy Research and Development: August 2010). 3<br />
2 US HUD, Moving to Work (MTW) FAQ<br />
http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD?src=/program_<strong>of</strong>fices/public_indian_housing/programs/ph/mtw/faq<br />
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