Must-Reads

Mixed-Income Must-Read Articles

If you care about or want to learn more about these topics, jump to the articles below: 

• A Good Place to Start
• Mixed-income as a Strategy for Addressing Urban Poverty
• Race, Equity, and Anti-Racism
• Social integration and Inclusion
• Youth
• Operations
• Relocation
• Resident Services
• Book Selections

A Good Place to Start

• Public Housing Redevelopment as a Tool for Revitalizing Neighborhoods: How and Why Did it Happen and What Have We Learned? 2006. Mindy Turbov
• The theoretical basis for addressing poverty through mixed-income development. 2007. Mark L. Joseph, Robert J. Chaskin, and Henry S. Webber
• All Mixed Up: Making Sense of Mixed-Income Housing Developments. 2017. Lawrence J. Vale and Shomon Shamsuddin.
• The Power of Intentional Networks in Mixed-Income Housing. 2015. Frankie Blackburn.
• The Enduring Significance of Race in Mixed-Income Developments. 2014. Amy T. Khare, Mark L. Joseph and Robert J. Chaskin.
• Mixed-income developments. In The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies. Mark L. Joseph and Miyoung Yoon.

Mixed-income as a Strategy for Addressing Urban Poverty

• Cityscape mixed-income symposium summary and response: Implications for antipoverty policy. 2013. Mark L. Joseph
• Making mixed-income neighborhoods work for low-Income households. 2013. James C. Fraser, Robert J. Chaskin, and Joshua T. Bazuin
• Market-driven public housing reforms: Inadequacy for poverty alleviation. 2013. Amy T. Khare
• Mixed-Income living : Anticipated and realized benefits for low-income households. 2013. Diane K. Levy, Zach McDade, and Kassie, Bertumen

Race, Equity, and Anti-Racism

• Reflections on the Journey to Everyday Antiracism: Introducing a Racial Equity and Racial Justice Lens. 2023. Mark L. Joseph
• Advancing Racial Equity in Housing and Community Development: An Anti-Racism Guide for Transformative Change. 2021. Amy Khare and Stephanie Reyes.
• Advancing Racial Equity in Inclusionary Housing Programs: A Guide for Policy and Practice. 2021. Stephanie Reyes and Amy Khare.
• The HOPE SF Racial Equity and Reparations Guide. 2020. Amy Khare, Mark Joseph, and Theodore Miller, Jr. 

Social Integration and Inclusion

• Mixed-Income Community Dynamics: Five Insights From Ethnography Spring 2013. Evidence Matters; HUD Office of Policy Development & Research (PD&R)
• Building “Community” in Mixed-Income Developments: Assumptions, Approaches, and Early Experiences. 2009. Robert J. Chaskin and Mark L. Joseph

Youth

• Youth in mixed-income communities replacing public housing complexes: Context, dynamics and response. 2013. Robert J. Chaskin, Florian Sichling, and Mark L. Joseph

Operations

• 4 Groups that Need to Change to Make Mixed-Income Communities Work. 2016. Bill Traynor and Frankie Blackburn
• Let’s Get Rid of the Words “Property” and “Manager”. 2016. Frankie Blackburn

Relocation

• Mixed-income developments and low rates of return: Insights from relocated public housing residents in Chicago. 2012. Mark L. Joseph and Robert J. Chaskin

Resident Services

• NIMC State of the Field Scan #2: Resident Services in Mixed-Income Developments Phase 1: Survey Findings and Analysis. 2015.
• Public housing transformation and the hard‐to‐house. 2005. Susan Popkin, Mary K. Cunningham, and Martha Burt
• The Imagined Self-Sufficient Communities of HOPE VI: Examining the Community and Social Support Component. 2014. Deirdre Oakley, James Fraser, and Joshua Bazuin

Book Selections

• Integrating the Inner City: The Promise and Perils of Mixed-Income Public Housing Transformation. 2015. Robert J. Chaskin and Mark L. Joseph
• What Works to Promote Inclusive, Equitable Mixed-Income Communities. 2020. Eds. Mark L. Joseph and Amy T. Khare.