Date: November 8th, 2005

Radical deconcentration

8 November, 2005 (14:24) | Federal funding, Housing, New Orleans, Slums, US News |

Even as Paris suffers through the hideous consequences of malignant income over-­concentration, back home Hurricane Katrina has done what three decades of well-meaning urban social policy could not: it has decisively and permanently deconcentrated poverty from Old New Orleans.   
 

New Orleans public housing, 2001
 
Old New Orleans was one of the nation’s sickest cities, with declining […]