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New Deal Ruins w/ Edward Goetz

The Dig

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Public Housing in America - The Disintegration of the Family Within the Black Community

The vast majority of public housing units were never distressed. Black communities in in American cities have been stigmatized really over the decades and as public housing became identified with with black residents then it began to share those that stigma. This was reinforced through popular media accounts of various social pathologies that were thought to be existing at heightened levels inside of public housing complexes. And so this led then to a kind of popular impression of public housing communities across the country as being places of immorality, he says.

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