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Demolition of Foote Homes is now underway. In its place will be more mixed income housing. It is part of what is being called "South City.

Willis speculates they were concentrated because of the availability of cheap land as people moved further east to the suburbs. A collection of doorknobs sits on one of the porches of a boarded up building at Foote Homes. And according to Preston Lauterbach in his article "Memphis Burning" the Memphis Housing Authority deliberately placed Foote Homes in an existing majority Black area to stunt property values and keep African-American Memphians from moving to majority-white neighborhoods.

The collection of housing projects kept poverty concentrated. As the Downtown core flourished, its outer edges deteriorated. The entire poverty rate for the city of Memphis is 28 percent.

The first major demolition of public housing in Memphis occurred at Foote Homes in the s. Reduce, remodel and rename defined the Hope VI transformation of public housing. Residents who were displaced by the construction were given Section 8 vouchers to relocate to other affordable housing until they were able to return to the new-and-improved development.

A flower blooms on a bush creeping up next to one of the boarded up building at Foote Homes. The effects of the program, however, were not far-reaching, according to Donovan Duncan, senior vice president of Urban Strategies Inc.

Choice Neighborhoods puts more of a data-driven emphasis on improving the lives of residents than was present in the Hope VI program, which focused mainly on renovating property, Duncan said. The buildings of Foote Homes will be demolished and public funds will sponsor streetscape improvements and encourage private investment.

Under Hope VI, federal funds could only be used to renovate affordable property on an existing site. The Choice Neighborhoods program goes beyond those boundaries to help foster housing and services that could lift up an entire area.