Topic: Public Housing
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Transforming Public Housing, Minus the Wrecking Ball
New York's overhaul offers room not only for new, revenue-producing housing but the creation of whole neighborhoods.
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Urban Wonk
Will Climate Change Alter the Geography of New York's Public Housing?
In the aftermath of Sandy, New Yorkers suddenly remembered that many of the city's housing projects are placed along the water.
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Videos
Denver's Innovative Strategy to Give Public Housing Residents What They Want
The Housing Authority is using a cultural audit to redevelop the city's outdated South Lincoln Homes, not far from downtown.
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Why I Moved Back to the Suburbs
Increasingly, I find fashionable inner city neighborhoods as banal as any suburb, just more expensive.
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Democracy in America
This Week in Bans: Massachusetts Whiner Gets American Flags Removed
Also, a tony California beach town shoos away smelly persons from its libraries, and the Olympics outlaws everything.
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Urban Wonk
The Right Way to Engage Residents in a Neighborhood Redesign
In Denver, a new model of how to revitalize older, distressed public housing sites in an ambitious yet sensitive way.
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Olympics 2012
London's Newest Export: The Poor?
The Olympics promised a fresh start for deprived East London. But they may end up forcing the poor out.
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Fresh Data on Public Housing Relocation and Crime
The latest study finds some links between crime and Section 8 housing in Chicago and Atlanta.
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Videos
In Defense of Pruitt-Igoe
A new documentary explores an overlooked truth - that the infamous housing project was once a very good thing.
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Urban Wonk
The Future of the Public Housing Project
Mixed-use, mixed-income neighborhoods can improve quality of life for the urban poor.
