Government-funded housing projects in the United States nearly all began with a common dream – to end urban slums and provide an affordable, safe housing option for low- to middle-income families. This dream has fallen so far that even many residents of some of the nation’s most infamous housing projects have called for their demolition. From gang violence to the robust drug trade to the incompetence of many local housing authority offices, large-scale government housing has seen some very dark days.
Sadly, it’s the projects’ most vulnerable residents, the young and the very old, who suffer the most. They are the ones who get caught in the crossfire of racially segregated, poverty-stricken, structurally flawed buildings – the ones who the system truly fails.
This post was published at Lew Rockwell on March 5, 2016.
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