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.
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