Public housing is a natural place to play out these more carceral aspects of neoliberalism. It's also the creation of zones where federal policies apply in terms of punishment, as opposed to local policies. And what it reveals about the true intentions of Hope 6 is that it wasn't truly about the well-being of residents.
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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