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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: public housing

public housing stories: 3 news summaries
OPINION

Mortgage Crisis? Blame George Bailey

It's A Wonderful Life hero helped poor buy unaffordable homes

Oct 12, 08 1:26 PM CDT
(Newser) - The housing bubble that triggered the current economic crisis began with a post-Depression attitude toward owning a home presented in the classic Christmas flick It’s a Wonderful Life, writes Ross Douthat in the Washington Post. Hero banker George Bailey’s chief goal was to loan the poor enough money... More »

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FDR • homeownership • public housing • housing bubble • suburban sprawl • suburbs • Great Depression • McMansion • financial crisis

analysis

 Why Is Memphis the New
 South Bronx? 

Demolition of low-income housing has only redistributed the problem

Jun 29, 08 4:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - Despite a flattened national crime rate in large cities, Memphis was recently dubbed the nation's leader in violent crime, prompting Atlantic Monthly to ask: “Why has Elvis’s hometown turned into America’s new South Bronx?" Local experts offer an unsettling answer: demolition of low-income housing projects isn’t... More »

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poverty • gang violence • urban poverty • Memphis • public housing

UPDATED

Big Easy Protest Turns Rough

New Orleans OK's demolition of housing despite opposition

Dec 20, 07 4:30 PM CST
(Newser) - Police used pepper spray and stun guns on protesters in New Orleans attempting to push their way into a City Council meeting over the impending demolition of 4,500 public housing units damaged by Katrina. Local activists oppose HUD's push to raze the houses to make room for mixed-income neighborhoods.... More »

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Hurricane Katrina • New Orleans • housing • Housing and Urban Development • public housing

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