Detailing the birth, life and death of America’s first major urban housing project in St. Louis, Chad Freidrichs’ “The Pruitt-Igoe Myth” combines concise but thoroughgoing sociological-historical ...
New York City democratic socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani has made “affordability” his top selling point and a freeze on the rents of nearly 1 million city apartments as a key element. Should he prove ...
If Americans have any shared image of public housing, it is one of dilapidated and even dangerous “projects” and locations of concentrated poverty. But there was a time—a brief shining moment—in which ...
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