Hope 6 was the centerpiece of Bill Clinton's public housing program and also in many ways the end of public housing as we knew it. In the 1980s, local officials came to the conclusion that these large communities of public housing are not assets for their city. A crack cocaine epidemic really generated something akin to a moral panic in a lot of American cities about escalation of crime,. The dysfunctionality of neighborhoods of concentrated poverty.
Featuring Edward Goetz on his book New Deal Ruins: Race, Economic Justice, and Public Housing Policy. Goetz tells the story of American public housing and then its destruction and dismantling, which took off in the 1980s and accelerated during the 90s under the Clinton Administration’s Hope VI program.
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