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School Colors Episode 3: "The Battle of Forest Hills"

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Is There a Difference Between Welfare and Race?

Housing project in forest hills has achieved a rare notoriety among housing bureacrats. Monetary golar wrote to the new york city council asking if they were willing to build public housing for people on welfare. He says there are projects like pomanok houses just a few miles away that have more than two thousand apartments, twice as many as those planned for forest hills. The response from simeon golar was: "There is no such thing as community participation" and 'I think we're losing sight of what's important'

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