OR Hits the Heights: Relocation Planning at the Orient Heights Housing Project

Edward H. Kaplan and Oded Berman
Additional contact information
Edward H. Kaplan: Yale School of Organization and Management, Box 1A, New Haven, Connecticut 06520
Oded Berman: Management Sciences Department, University of Massachusetts at Boston, Boston, Massachusetts 02125

Interfaces, 1988, vol. 18, issue 6, 14-22

Abstract: The redevelopment of the Orient Heights housing project in East Boston requires the determination of a feasible plan for temporarily and permanently relocating project tenants. Any such plan involves resource trade-offs pertaining to the number of new vacant units that must be created, the extent of temporary underhousing of occupants, and the degree of on-site versus off-site relocation. An integer programming model and scheduling heuristic developed for such problems was refined and applied to this problem. The results of the analysis identify strategic options for the Boston Housing Authority to pursue, in addition to detailed implementation schedules for each of these options.

Keywords: government: services; programming: integer; algorithm: heuristic (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1988
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (5)

Downloads: (external link)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/inte.18.6.14 (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:inm:orinte:v:18:y:1988:i:6:p:14-22

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Interfaces from INFORMS Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Chris Asher ().