Residents have “raised their children there. Now, they’re raising their grandchildren there,” she says. “It’s a great model.” A new study backs her up. Led by Raj Chetty, a Harvard economist and a ...

Chicago’s Robert Taylor Homes being demolished in 2007. As high-rise public housing was removed, it was promised that displaced residents would eventually be allowed back into their communities in new ...

Good intentions tend to carry far more weight than they should in some spheres. Public housing is unquestionably one of them. While the arguments in Howard Husock’s The Projects: A New History of ...