Quote Originally Posted by Detroitnerd View Post
The public housing dedicated by Mrs. Roosevelt was not at the same time as the dramatic slum clearance policies that created Lafayette Park and I-75 and I-375.
It was the same thing. Build "nice" public housing, move the poor out of the rat-infested slum, then demolish the slum. The unintended consequences were that the public housing rapidly became a new slum.