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Item An analysis of the allocation of the low-income housing tax credit(Texas Tech University, 1997-12) Hopkins, John D.Since the passage of the National Housing Act in 1937, Congress has been dedicated to increasing the supply of "affordable" low-income housing. At different points in time over the past 57 years, public housing programs as well as various demandand supply-side incentives for private investment have been used as the means to achieve this goal. The Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) is the latest supply-side program to use tax incentives to stimulate the development of low-income housing by the private sector. When the LIHTC was written. Congress incorporated several secondary goals into its structure. These secondary goals include tying the amount of the subsidy directly to the low-income units provided by the property, substantially reducing the maximum qualifying income level for tenants, setting a maximum gross rent on units receiving the credit, and creating a new allocation process for distributing the tax subsidy to applicants. The LIHTC is structured to encourage the rehabilitation and construction of low-income housing units with rent restrictions. Owners of low-income housing projects allocated the LIHTC are entitled to an annual credit for ten years. Over the first ten years of the tax credit program, annual allocations of the credit have totaled over $3.2 billion, and these aimual allocations will reduce federal revenues $32 billion. The LIHTC, originally created as a temporary provision of the Tax Reform Act of 1986, was made a permanent part of the Internal Revenue Code by the Revenue Reconciliation Act of 1993. Congress took this action in spite of the program's negative impact on tax evenues and concerns that the LIHTC program might not be meeting the goals set by Congress.Item An inquiry into methods used in dealing with home and family problems in public housing projects in Region V in wartime(1946-08) Ballow, CharlotteNot AvailableItem Defining success : a distinction between inputs and outputs of successful public housing projects(2014-05) Bachman, Emily Catherine; Wilson, Barbara B. (Barbara Brown)Public housing across the United States differs greatly in physical form, construction quality, and reception by the community, among myriad other variables. This reports examines what successful public housing looks like, and what characteristics make certain public housing projects more successful than others. There is a great deal of thought and literature predicting this success. However, it is rarely accompanied by a corresponding picture of the “outputs” of successful public housing. Assessment measures presented in existing literature and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s publications do not provide a thorough metric by which to measure public housing success on a project-by-project basis. This report examines the existing metrics—both explicit and inferred—and assesses their suitability for this purpose. Finally, it compiles indicators of success from various sources and lobbies for a comprehensive success metric at an individual public housing project level.Item The political economy of neighborhood change and public housing (re)development in Austin, Texas(2014-05) Martinec, Matthew Clayton; Mueller, Elizabeth J.; Wilson, Barbara B. (Barbara Brown)The aim of this thesis is to explore the evolving relationship between neighborhood change and public housing in the historically black neighborhood of Rosewood in Austin, Texas. In October 2010, the Housing Authority of the City of Austin was awarded a grant to begin the process of redeveloping one of the nation’s oldest federally funded public housing facilities – Rosewood Courts. As the once segregated public housing complex is slated for redevelopment, community members representing an assortment of interests have engaged in a series of heated exchanges and elevated discourse surrounding the legacy of public housing in Austin, Texas. At the same time, the Rosewood Neighborhood has witnessed a dramatic transformation in recent decades, losing much of its long-standing black community to an ever emergent gentrifying population. This research evaluates the relationship between neighborhood change and public housing (re)development, highlighting the position of Rosewood Courts within larger processes of policy and political economy transformation.Item Ridglea West: a low and medium income housing development in Fort Worth, Texas(Texas Tech University, 1989-05) Dabney, Mark HaralsonThe focus of this project is on redesigning the home for low-income families in Fort Worth, Texas. Architects can make the individual family home both more inviting and useful by facilitating the positive interaction of neighbors and enhancing the image residents have of themselves. These psychological factors can be controlled through the layout of individual dwellings, their grouping around collective areas, their positioning relative to streets, and the symbolic meaning of a dwelling's external form. A pattern language has been developed to organize all aspects of the design and provide a guide for the actual design process. All elements of the home have been analyzed and are broken up into detail. Patterns for a day care center and a community center have also been created. These patterns are essential to a good housing project but are not the focus. Along with planning for a day care center and a community center, this program will present plans and guidelines for management and maintenance organizations. Through careful assembly and design of architectural elements, a more inviting home can be created. This program shows that architects can play a significant role in improving the lives of millions of low and moderate income Americans.Item Telling a different geographic story : garreting, license, and the making of Chicago's Ida B. Wells Homes(2010-05) Quesal, Susan; Thompson, Shirley Elizabeth; Hoelscher, StevenThe Ida B. Wells Homes, the first black-occupied housing project built in Chicago, were completed in 1941. Throughout their construction and inhabitation, the black community in Chicago worked to create a self-contained space which would control the visibility/invisibility of its black inhabitants and, symbolically, the black community as a whole. Taking as theoretical grounding Katherine McKittrick’s work on garreting and Susan Lepselter’s work on license, this essay argues that the Ida B. Wells Homes were a South Side garret for the black community, a space in which freedom became defined by its own boundaries and wherein this freedom could work in tandem with dominant geographies of oppression to construct a “different” geographic story. This “different” geography intended to alter perceptions of black life by working against dominant geographic narratives that were prevalent at the time, such as those put forth by the Chicago School of Sociology.