Matt Steger

concerns around displacement should be taken very seriously.

And so if one was trying to understand whether HOPE VI is a good or a bad policy, you'd really want to think seriously about how to weigh the benefits that we're estimating in our paper against the kind of displacement of costs, which we have not tried to quantify in any real way.

About half of low-income neighborhoods are just as socially isolated

as HOPE VI projects were prior to revitalization.