A ghetto is ... On how the New Deal's Public Works Administration led to the creation of segregated ghettos Its policy was that public housing could be used only to house people of the same ...

THE Gordon Estate in Dubbo had long been a ghetto of welfare dependency ... The strategy of razing an entire public housing estate, dispersing tenants and selling the land to private buyers ...

But the most affecting aspect of the book is the demonstration of the ghetto not ... of racist public policy. Here is Satter foreshadowing much of what we see in today's housing crisis: [B]y ...

Ben Austen, a journalist and Chicago resident, is the author of High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing (Harper, 2018), and he delivered a lecture in Gasson Hall sponsored ...

Reader Devin Bunten sent me a note expanding on the problems of contract-buying, redlining, and the kind of segregated housing market ... families were swindled by public policy, white terrorism ...