Is the Development Mantra Catering to the Well to Do Over Determined by the Historical Context?

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Walkable neighborhoods should be a good thing. It's just under a kind of neoliberal capitalist paradigm. Public housing residents are not the ones walking in those neighborhoods. So I not to be too sympathetic to these city leaders, but are they responding to an intensifying logic and set of interests that are encouraged or even imposed upon cities?

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. Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig and get our weekly newsletter by email plus swag. Check out Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire haymarketbooks.org/books/1861-light-in-gaza