Public Housing

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This paper explains that low income families who are forced to live in cramped public housing blocks regularly encounter numerous social problems, such as drugs, street fights and gangs, and feel that they absolutely have no way out. The author points out that, while lack of proper housing facilities for its poor is one of the country's most important issues, the problem rarely appears on the political agenda. This paper states that it is impossible to achieve complete economic prosperity in the cities where such sections exist because they take their toll on the city's financial and economic reserves.

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"New York is one city with enormous public housing problems. It was excluded from economically favorable places in American only because of the poor neighborhoods that exist in this city. The city that is proud of its skyscrapers should be ashamed of the poor administration, which has resulted in the creation of public housing neighborhood such as South Bronx where others are even scared to enter. The administration has done little or nothing to improve the situation for those who are forced to live in problem-infested blocks."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Winton Pitcoff, No Place to Call Home. , Dollars & Sense, 03-01-2000, pp 24-25, 45-
• Dreier, Peter, The new politics of housing: how to rebuild the constituency for a progressive federal housing policy.. Vol. 63, Journal of the American Planning Association, 01-01-1997, pp 5(23)
• H. Carl McCall, State Comptroller Office of the State Deputy Comptroller for the City of New York, July 1999 report: http://www.osc.state.ny.us/osdc/rpt200/rpt200.htm#chap1

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• Analytical Essay # 142223 : "Aggravated Assault in Public Housing"
• Research Paper # 44788 : "Public Housing and Social Destruction"
• Research Proposal # 21866 : "Public Housing Projects"

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