Until their demolition in the past two years, Scott Homes and Carver Homes public housing projects contained a total of 850 conventional public housing rental units. The projects were demolished as part of a HOPE VI grant which Miami Dade Housing Agency received from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in 1999. The HOPE VI redevelopment plan was to relocate all of the existing residents, demolish all of the public housing units and rebuild a mixed income community with only eighty traditional public housing units.
The relocated residents were required to either move into other public housing units or to utilize Section 8 Housing Choice vouchers to move into private rentals. Most of the relocating residents chose to use the Section 8 vouchers. The Miami Workers Center and Low Income Families Fighting Together have recently identified 187 former heads of households that were displaced from Scott-Carver Homes. These former Scott-Carver residents filled out questionnaires about their experiences after relocation, and their responses revealed serious problems with the success of the relocation effort.
