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 ...

America’s era of big public housing projects was a grand experiment whose period of favor was remarkably short-lived. The austere, often high-rise complexes rose across US cities in a few decades, ...

One popular strain of urban-policy thinking opposes gentrification—the arrival of affluent people into poor neighborhoods—and argues that poverty should be rectified by ever greater expenditure on ...