The Philadelphia Mayoral Race is in full effect. The mayoral candidates campaigns are reaching a high point with this upcoming May elections. One of the candidates in the upcoming election is Nelson Diaz. Nelson Diaz has a lot of experience dealing with public housing. In the early 1990s Diaz was appointed general counsel for HUD. When crime and drug rates in public housing communities where at an all time high Diaz laid the groundwork for reform for how public housing communities were built and financed. Diaz revolutionized public housing at a time when it looked like it would cease to exist. Diaz proposed that public housing communities could be managed by private developers. This idea provided public housing communities with mixed income rather than only low income. Diaz's idea provided this because private developers could make public housing units and regular market price houses in one community. This made the public housing system more of an entrepreneur system and not so much a complete government funded program. This new reform lead to the demolition to many high rise projects which were highly ineffective in providing adequate housing to residents. These high rise projects were also the most vulnerable to high crime and drug rates.
http://planphilly.com/articles/2015/03/03/at-hud-diaz-opinion-marked-shift-in-public-housing-development
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