The building and management of public housing is often seen as a signal failure of American public policy, but this is a vastly oversimplified view. In Purging

Now considered a dysfunctional mess, Chicago’s public housing projects once had long waiting lists of would-be residents hoping to leave the slums behind. So

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For more than a century, Harlem has been the epicenter of black America, the celebrated heart of African American life and culture—but it has also been a bywo

Popular opinion holds that public housing is a failure; so what more needs to be said about seventy-five years of dashed hopes and destructive policies? Over th