New York City Public Housing - Sucess or Failure? (high crime, neighborhoods)

[BugsyPal]

Interesting series that looks at areas of NYC before urban renewal and "slum clearance" wiped away tenements and built large tracks of public housing.

Though to be the modern answer to low, working and middle income housing some argue that the schemes were doomed to failure and could not help what they have often become; vertical slums housing the poor in high crime and otherwise poor conditions.

What some see as the larger tragedy was not only the displacement of local residents to build these projects, but the destruction of what were functioning neighborhoods.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-aH0zz1L38


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJ62bxhj3iA


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWGwsA1V2r4