![The Burnham’s Affordable Senior Housing Helps Revitalize Chicago’s Woodlawn Neighborhood The Burnham’s Affordable Senior Housing Helps Revitalize Chicago’s Woodlawn Neighborhood](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20201218070832im_/https://www.huduser.gov/portal/sites/default/files/images/EDGE-Inpractice-1-111816.jpg)
Woodlawn Park is a multiphased, mixed-use, mixed-income revitalization project being developed in the Woodlawn neighborhood of Chicago, and The Burnham at Woodlawn Park is the most recently completed residential phase of the project.
![Addressing Barriers to Economic Mobility Addressing Barriers to Economic Mobility](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20201218070832im_/https://www.huduser.gov/portal/sites/default/files/images/EDGE_Building_100716.jpg)
In September 2016, researchers, policymakers, and practitioners convened for “Promoting Economic Mobility: Putting Evidence to Action for Communities,” a conference hosted by the Urban Institute and the Citi Foundation.
![HUD Secretary Julián Castro and Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx Discuss Pathways to Mobility and Opportunity HUD Secretary Julián Castro and Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx Discuss Pathways to Mobility and Opportunity](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20201218070832im_/https://www.huduser.gov/portal/sites/default/files/images/Feature_0404.jpg)
President Obama's opportunity agenda promotes the idea that regardless of where a person lives, they should have access to employment, vital services,
and decent education and housing.
![Managing Community Change: A Dialogue on Gentrification Managing Community Change: A Dialogue on Gentrification](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20201218070832im_/https://www.huduser.gov/portal/sites/default/files/images/Feature_0502.jpg)
Gentrification is a form of neighborhood change that occurs when higher-income groups move into low-income neighborhoods, increasing the demand for housing and driving up prices.
![Portland, Oregon’s Erickson Saloon and Fritz Hotel Transformed into Mixed-Income Housing Portland, Oregon’s Erickson Saloon and Fritz Hotel Transformed into Mixed-Income Housing](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20201218070832im_/https://www.huduser.gov/portal/sites/default/files/images/Erickson_exterior_1.jpg)
Innovative Housing, a developer, owner, and manager of affordable housing with a special niche in preserving and restoring historic buildings, recently unveiled its transformation of Portland, Oregon’s Erickson Saloon and Fritz Hotel into the Erickson Fritz Apartments.
![RAD Program Recapitalizes Public Housing near St. Petersburg, Florida RAD Program Recapitalizes Public Housing near St. Petersburg, Florida](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20201218070832im_/https://www.huduser.gov/portal/sites/default/files/images/IP1_0208.jpg)
The Landings at Cross Bayou is a 184-unit Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD) program redevelopment of public housing that had become functionally obsolete and deteriorating as a result of inadequate funding.
![Using Promise Zones to Support Community Change, An Interview with Margeaux Akazawa Using Promise Zones to Support Community Change, An Interview with Margeaux Akazawa](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20201218070832im_/https://www.huduser.gov/portal/sites/default/files/images/Philadelphia_Trending.jpg)
In this column, Margeaux Akazawa, STEM Presidential Management Fellow and Desk Officer for the Promise Zones Initiative, summarizes the Promise Zones initiative and discusses how the program assists communities with high capacity and high needs.
![A Community of Teachers Helps Revitalize Newark, New Jersey A Community of Teachers Helps Revitalize Newark, New Jersey](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20201218070832im_/https://www.huduser.gov/portal/sites/default/files/images/IP1_0404.jpg)
A public-private partnership including developer RBH Group and several state and local entities is replacing a number of vacant lots and deteriorating buildings in downtown Newark, New Jersey, with Teachers Village, a $150 million mixed-use development.
![South Bend’s Vacant and Abandoned Housing Challenge: 1,000 Houses in 1,000 Days South Bend’s Vacant and Abandoned Housing Challenge: 1,000 Houses in 1,000 Days](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20201218070832im_/https://www.huduser.gov/portal/sites/default/files/images/IP1_0107.jpg)
The large number of abandoned and vacant homes in South Bend, Indiana, was one of Pete Buttigieg’s top priorities during his successful 2011 campaign for mayor.
![Providing Affordable Housing and Cultural Assets in Harlem Providing Affordable Housing and Cultural Assets in Harlem](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20201218070832im_/https://www.huduser.gov/portal/sites/default/files/images/inpractice_060115_1.jpg)
Officials in New York City are grappling with a housing affordability crisis that has been widely discussed in the national press.