The project transformed the once low-income area into mixed-income development.

Brick Towers has since been demolished, and a new mixed-income development was built there in 2010.

The new rental housing should be mixed-income developments that promote diverse, stable neighborhoods.

The city has led the country, rivaled only by Chicago, in the race to replace public housing projects with mixed-income developments.

It is now a mixed-income development called River Garden, with a small fraction of the original public housing tenants.

Developers used the Section 8 guarantees as backing when they raised money for low- or mixed-income developments.

At a time when most housing funds are being trimmed, Cisneros will spend $80 million to transform the site into a smaller, mixed-income development.

However, the plan made additional low-income housing such a high priority that it was not likely to yield much mixed-income residential or commercial development.

That program replaces rundown public housing with mixed-income developments.

The city is now advancing a plan called "New Communities" to encourage mixed-income development.