District G
HHA Fountain View Project
This page details the Fountainview Project from 2016:
There is also a website maintained by a citizens’ group that has additional information about the project and the growing opposition of the community thereto: http://www.stopfountainviewproject.org/ (link expired)
Council Member Travis opposes this project, as does Congressman John Culberson, State Senator Joan Huffman, State Representative Jim Murphy, and HISD Trustee Harvin Moore. Each has written a letter outlining their objections to this project:
- Council Member Greg Travis
- Congressman John Culberson
- John Culberson for Congress Campaign
- State Senator Joan Huffman
- State Representative Jim Murphy
- HISD Trustee Harvin Moore
- High Opportunity Areas Map
- HUD's Own Study
Housing Studies:
- A Summary Overview of Moving to Opportunity: A Random Assignment Housing Mobility Study in Five U.S. Cities, Abstract http://www.nber.org/mtopublic/MTO%20Overview%20Summary.pdf (This one summarizes the 287 page report).
- Moving to Opportunity for Fair Housing Demonstration Program, Interim Impacts Evaluation https://www.huduser.gov/Publications/pdf/MTOfullreport.pdf (This is the 287 page report).
- Sociology’s Revenge: Moving to Opportunity (MTO) Revisited: http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/social-mobility-memos/posts/2015/05/06-moving-to-opportunity-revisited-rothwell# (Commentary and Summary).
- HUD’s Own Study Dashes Utopian Dream of Cross-Neighborhood Prosperity http://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/hud-study-reveals-blacks-dont-benefit-economically-from-neighborhood-relocation/ (Commentary and Summary)
- HUD suburb integration plan undercut by its own study http://www.habitatiii.org/content/news/us-hud-suburb-integration-plan-undercut-its-own-study (link expired)