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Obama administration begins redistributing poor inner-city families to suburbs. (Baltimore Sun) – Danielle Hill has a secret, one she shares with dozens of other residents of Baltimore public housing. It goes like this: They don’t live in the city....

The history of public housing in the United States can be read, in part, as a history of the modern impoverishment of racial minorities, in particular, of the African American population. As reviewer Rhonda Y. Williams notes, Edward G. Goetz has written...

BEAUMONT, Tex.—There are termites everywhere in this first-floor apartment near the railroad tracks. They’re on the windowsill and in an elongated nest on the ceiling. They’re flying into water glasses and expiring there, landing on food and beds and...

When a woman in McKinney, Texas, told Tatiana Rhodes and her friends to “go back to your Section 8 homes” at a public pool earlier this month, she inadvertently spoke volumes about the failure of a program that was designed to help America’s poor. Created...

Shola Olatoye, Chair New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) 250 Broadway New York, NY 10007 Dear Chair Olatoye: Participants in the NYC Alliance to Preserve Public Housing submit the attached comments as a collective response to the NYCHA Draft...