CORRESPONDENCE.

HIGH-RISE HELLHOLES

TO THE EDITORS:

There is little with which I would disagree in Alexander von Hoffman's splendid review of Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh's and Lawrence J. Vale's books on public housing in Chicago and Boston ["High-Rise Hellholes," April 9, 2001]. I believe, however, that the public housing disaster needs to be seen in the larger context of the times.

The ills that beset public housing were not entirely unique; rather, they were largely due to problems that arose in the wake of the huge postwar influx into the cities of poor blacks from the ...

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