The Demonstration Disposition Program: Experiments in Participation

Abstract

This paper reports on the progress of an innovative federally funded housing program in Boston, Massachusetts. The program employs unprecedented levels of resident participation in planning the rehabilitation of over 2100 units of low income housing in eleven developments in three inner city neighborhoods. The outcome of the program is to transfer title of the properties to the resident associations. This paper gives an overview of the program and its participation structure and looks more specifically at the Design and Construction Phase of the program.