School Colors Episode 3: "The Battle of Forest Hills"
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Public Housing in New York City
Nicholas diggan bloom is a professor of urban policy in planning at hunter college. He says it wasn't just that certain neighborhoods were targeted for public housing. It's also that other neighborhoods, middle class, primarily white neighborhoods, were not. When john lindsey became the mayor, he wanted to change that. In his first year in office, lindsey announced his intention to build 11 scattersite housing projects - one of them in forest hills.
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