ABSTRACT
Housing subsequently refrained from mid-block demolitions. Demolition as a strategy to balance the demand for housing with the supply has severe drawbacks, though. Neighborhoods with massive demolition look mutilated if there isn't also new construction. Large-scale demolition wreaked havoc to the social and built fabric of cities to such an extent that it exacerbated the strong bifurcation of the urban housing markets. Creating markets where there were none and privatizing public housing are a reflection of how to do more with less. A revival of the urban renewal approach to Baltimore's concentration of poverty and housing and community development came in 1995 when the city embarked on an ambitious initiative to rid itself of all its public housing high-rise complexes on the east and west of downtown. Community hiring, community participation and partnerships have been refined and improved to a point that many approaches tested here can now serve as models elsewhere in the city.
