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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: tejek who wrote (135441)	8/5/2013 8:29:09 AM
From: Bread Upon The Water	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

The housing projects were built starting in the 1930s and then right after WW II. Subsidized housing is what was developed in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s because the housing projects were not working: "Projects" is the key word here. I'm talking about the commenced building of those high rise towers in major cities--mostly filled with single parent welfare recipients--that to my knowledge were a 70's phenomena. What you are terming "projects" was initially for working class white folks and didn't have the negative connotations associated with them that the later high rises did (i.e. crime and poverty and single parents .)