New York City Planning Commission Report - The Evicted Tenants

A report published more recently by the new york city planning commission describes this process, overseen by moses, as an enforced population displacement. The evicted population was forty % black or hespanic, at a time when those demographics made up only a little over ten percent of the city's overall population. Many tenants were forced to clant cram and already crowded tenement buildings near by,. exasperating conditions caused by poverty and allowing exploitative landlords to reap huge profits. A member of the women city club investigating the manhattn town development on the upper west side described people living in a scene that looked like a cross section of bombed out berlin right after world war two.