High rise public housing - the living experiment that failed

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Thanks , will watch this later and comment.
Having been taught by old timers in my city, and having read about Public Housing developments in other cities, I have an idea of the general story. Interested in how Baltimore's history varies from the others.

The Elders in my city pinpointed the exact years when the Projects took a turn for the worse in our city and across the tristate, and WHY.
 

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Always found it wild that those who lived in the high rises coming up were seen as broke whereas now the same model has some laminate floors and shiny doors after being rebranded as an apartment and is a sign of having "made it" as its expensive.

It literally like sampling a building, throwing some new kicks on it and hitting a lick from people who don't know the difference. Also 9/10 they're often in the same location as the slums were handily next to the busy center to depress the property value for this long term thinking by the ones who own the planet...

The gentrification effect with pumpkin spice lattes and avocado toast on deck where there was nothing but pissy hallways and derelicts as a jit...
 

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It didn't fail. It served its purpose in the past. Group blacks in cities while the suburbs were expanded for whites.
 
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