ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author analyzes demographic data from the Denver Planning Office, the Denver Office of Policy Analysis, and the Denver Regional Council of Governments. In January, 1980, the Denver Housing Authority provided the opportunity to address feminist goals of access to housing, jobs, and services within a new community as part of an effort to provide new strategies for urban development in Denver. The author emphasizes the aspects that most directly addressed women's needs; the team learned through workshops that the majority of public- and private-sector actors involved did not view Denver's future from this perspective. She focuses on differences in the needs of households related to a historically gender-based division of responsibility for nurturing and economically productive work even if it has often been more of an ideal than a reality. The author discusses differential access to housing related to women's lower pay scales.
