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Home / Economic Policy / From “Projects” to Communities: How to Redeem Public Housing
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From “Projects” to Communities: How to Redeem Public Housing

Saving public housing will require more than bootstrap lectures and selling off units to tenants. To transform housing projects into safe communities requires a new balance of rights and responsibilities—and real resources.
by John Atlas July 1, 1992

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John Atlas is president of the National Housing Institute (NHI), a nonprofit research and policy center that sponsors Shelterforce magazine. More by John Atlas

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