HOPE VI is a plan by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development. It is meant to revitalize the worst public housing projects in the United States into mixed-income developments. Its philosophy is largely based on New Urbanism and the concept of Defensible space.

The program began in 1992, with formal recognition in law in 1998. As of 2005, the program had distributed $5.8 billion through 446 federal block grants to cities for the developments, with the highest individual grant being $67.7 million, awarded to Arvene/Edgemere Houses in New York, NY.

HOPE VI has included a variety of grant programs including: Revitalization, Demolition, Main Street, and Planning grant programs. As of June 1, 2010 there have been 254 HOPE VI Revitalization grants awarded to 132 housing authorities since 1993 – totaling more than $­­­­6.1 billion.

An exemplary precursor and inspiration to the HOPE VI model was the Columbia Point Housing Projects on Columbia Point in Boston, Massachusetts. Built in 1954, and consisting of approximately 1,500 apartment units, they fell into disrepair and became quite dangerous and by the 1980s only 300 families lived there and the buildings were falling apart. Eventually, realizing the situation was almost hopeless, in 1984 Boston turned over the management, cleanup, planning and revitalization of the property to a private development firm Corcoran-Mullins-Jennison. The construction work for the new Harbor Point development began in 1986 and completed by 1990. It was a beautifully laid out, mixed income community, called Harbor Point Apartments.

Larry Keating (June 13, 1899^[discuss] – August 26, 1963) was an American actor born in St. Paul, Minnesota. He is known for his role of next-door neighbor Roger Addison on the television series Mister Ed, which he played from 1961 until his death in 1963. He was one of several actors to play neighbor Harry Morton* on The Burns and Allen Show (and its short-lived sequel, The George Burns Show). He was an announcer for NBC in the 1940s, an announcer for ABC radio's This Is Your FBI from 1945 to 1953, and a regular on the short-lived series The Hank McCune Show. (* Keating took over the role from Fred Clark.)

Keating's film credits include The Mating Season (1951) with Gene Tierney, Thelma Ritter and Miriam Hopkins, When Worlds Collide (1951), and Monkey Business (1952) with Cary Grant and Marilyn Monroe.

Keating died of leukemia on August 26, 1963. The Incredible Mr. Limpet proved to be his last film in a live-acted/animated role. He is entombed in Portland, Oregon's Mount Calvary Cemetery.