Artur Davis said "Prior to the conception of the HOPE VI program, we tended to believe that public housing was a condition that was not alterable, it was not changeable; and, similarly, we believed that it would look pretty much as it did when a public housing unit was conceived. The signal event that happened when this program was passed in the late 1980s was that, all of a sudden, we recognized that a public housing unit, like any other piece of property in America, can be transformed. It can be made esthetically attractive. It can be made a unit that will attract residents from different income levels. It can be made a place that is not just a shelter, that is not just four walls, but that is a home. I have to think that that recognition about the capacity to physically change communities has had a carryover impact on the lives of the people who live there." @ PoliticalQuotes.com

On the recordSeptember 27, 2006

Prior to the conception of the HOPE VI program, we tended to believe that public housing was a condition that was not alterable, it was not changeable; and, similarly, we believed that it would look pretty much as it did when a public housing unit was conceived. The signal event that happened when this program was passed in the late 1980s was that, all of a sudden, we recognized that a public housing unit, like any other piece of property in America, can be transformed. It can be made esthetically attractive. It can be made a unit that will attract residents from different income levels. It can be made a place that is not just a shelter, that is not just four walls, but that is a home. I have to think that that recognition about the capacity to physically change communities has had a carryover impact on the lives of the people who live there.

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Artur Davis

Democratic · Alabama

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Editor's note · Context

Discussing the transformative impact of the HOPE VI program on public housing.

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