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The HOPE VI program's focus on mixing incomes and reducing density resulted in the loss of more than 100,000 units of affordable housing, a lesson HUD has taken to heart.
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The Chicago Housing Authority's ambitous Plan for Transformation is now in its 13th year, and the agency hopes to correct some mistakes in the second coming of the Plan.
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Many municipalities smile upon mixed-income developments, and more developers are finding opportunities in tax-credit deals by partnering with nonprofits.
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Many market-rate developers, frustrated by the conventional construction-debt market, are turning to tax-exempt bonds to jump-start long-delayed developments.
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The St. Aidan, Brookline, Mass.
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MetroPointe wins 2009 MFE award for mixed-income project of the year.
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Lafayette Park is the first urban renewal project in the country still functioning as it was intended.
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Atlanta
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Chicago has faced a bit of criticism for its groundbreaking and controversial plan to tear down its collection of dated and dangerous high-rise public housing properties and replace them with lower-density, mixed-income housing built by private developers.