lemoult_lottery_120207<\/a><\/p>\nFor city residents like Richard Estrada, winning would mean a lot. He\u2019s got two boys at home, one of whom has autism and who he says needs more space than he\u2019s got now. Estrada\u2019s not your usual public housing tenant. He\u2019s got a good job, running maintenance for the city\u2019s police stations. But that\u2019s the idea of this lottery: the city\u2019s looking for the working poor. The idea is to get people with different incomes living together. The federal government funds hundreds of mixed income communities like this around the country. \u00a0New Haven is using some money for this development that would have otherwise supported housing vouchers.\u00a0 People can use vouchers to help pay rent at apartments around the city. Bob Ellickson, who teaches property law at Yale, says these mixed income communities are way better than the old model of clustering the poorest people in massive projects.\u00a0 But he says they\u2019re not as good as the vouchers, which he says help twice as many people. \u00a0Federal housing officials say rent vouchers can only do so much.\u00a0 This project is a brand new development with built-in social services, like job training.\u00a0 Add in the lottery to mix things up economically, and, they say, you may have created a community that can make some progress against poverty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
New Haven is holding a lottery. The jackpot: \u00a0the opportunity to live in a brand new public housing community. \u00a0You can hear our story about it here: lemoult_lottery_120207 For city residents like Richard Estrada, winning would mean a lot. He\u2019s got two boys at home, one of whom has autism and who he says needs […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-housing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53,"href":"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions\/53"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}