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I hope this continues!!! I hate public housing and they all should be demolished.
"all the public housing units on W 114th between Frederick Douglass and Adam Clayton Blvd have been vacated. One day a bustling low income public housing neighborhood and now an empty street.
There are so much new projects planned for Harlem, it's great!!!!
I hope this continues!!! I hate public housing and they all should be demolished
This is from the NYCHA website.
Randolph Houses
The relocation process of families began in the summer of 2002 in preparation
for a $60 million capital project to upgrade Randolph Houses, located on
West 114th Street in Harlem. Apartments in 36 distressed walk-up
buildings that were built before 1912 will be rehabilitated
I hope this continues!!! I hate public housing and they all should be demolished.
Strictly from a building construction perspective......
No New York City Housing project should be demolished! Those buildings are too well-built to be destroyed! You just don't tear down any brick housing built between the New Deal and the early 60s.
It won't work out the way they wanted. They'll put in all these stores, until one day a protest on public housing turns into a riot. It's only a matter of time. Leave Harlem the way it is, that's one ghetto that should be left alone in America. The most important ghetto in America.
Strictly from a building construction perspective......
No New York City Housing project should be demolished! Those buildings are too well-built to be destroyed! You just don't tear down any brick housing built between the New Deal and the early 60s.
I totally agree. The project buildings are made much better and the room sizes aren't bad either. They'll be standing longer than any of these new hodge podge constructions selling for a million plus. If people only knew.
The projects were well built, but poorly thought out. That's their failure.
There is no reason that public housing has to be a failure in America. I used to live in Singapore where 85% of the population lives in public housing. Over there it is safe, clean, and affordable. (Housing and Development Board - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
In America most people above some threshold of poverty run away from public housing like its the plague. It is only this way because of our government's bad policies.
Wow...great link, mead. Also interesting is the quota system which prevents the kind of ghettoization of different ethnic groups which we still see here in abundance.
rent is crazy.Housing projects are in big trouble. the people better wake up.I am leaving before the yr is out hopefully.I went to a town hall meeting last mo.bloomburg,housing people were their,albany reps,and sentor perkins.They said what was done to the housing in will be happening here.We were told we are gonna have to come together and rally for our apt.The market value in harlen has hit the roof.I am moving hopefully the end of the yr. Out of state.
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