Submitted by cs, May 6, 2008 11:19

Generally public housing projects have little to no retail space available for supermarkets, as they were developed that way. The Times could talk about how entire neighborhoods, along with small businesses, were razed to build these projects. Many urban planners today see the failures of such planning but rarely blame government intervention into the marketplace. Just another good idea that was poorly executed in their minds. Furthermore, public housing tends to concentrate the poorest people in one location. There will always be income stratification in residential patterns, however, lower income neighborhoods generally have a mix of poor and lower middle class residents. This is less true in public housing.

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