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Outcome Summary

When relocation was completed in April 2002, the status of the original Holly Park households was located as follows:

• 227 returned to New Holly.

• 52 households bought homes.

• 137 households relocated to another SHA community.

• 267 households obtained a Housing Choice voucher.

• 59 households obtained other, non-SHA housing.

• 16 residents died.

• 11 households were evicted or abandoned their apartments.

• 28 residents moved into a supportive living environment.

• 9 residents moved out of state.

• 26 residents did not keep in touch with SHA regarding their whereabouts.

This information is summarized in the following chart:

Use of Housing Choice vouchers

The Housing Choice voucher program allows a resident to take a voucher to a private landlord and pay 30 percent of their income for rent. The voucher subsidizes the balance of the rent due to the landlord.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) was specifically interested in using these vouchers to help locate affordable housing in neighborhoods where public housing was scarce, thus expanding subsidized housing throughout the city. 

In fact, those households using vouchers were somewhat successful in relocating to more affluent neighborhoods. Of those households using vouchers to permanently relocate, 147 families (55 percent) were able to find housing in neighborhoods described as "non-poverty, non-minority concentration areas." Nearly three fourths of voucher holders found new housing within the city limits (193 households or 72 percent). An additional 65 households used their vouchers in the suburbs surrounding Seattle.

Cost of Relocation

Both residents and businesses (mostly social service agencies) received relocation assistance. In total, the HOPE VI grant provided nearly $2 million for relocation costs, with most going to residents to provide a dislocation allowance and to pay moving costs.