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  • She called the public-housing program "a really neat model that we hope can be replicated in other parts of the country."

    Museum Moves Beyond Its Walls Sophia Hollander 2011

  • Father Luigi Giambastiani of St. Philip Benizi Church, the largest Sicilian church in Chicago, led a movement to keep Italians and blacks segregated in new public-housing projects.

    A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

  • At the same time, a director of the Cabrini public-housing project reported being told “repeatedly” by Italian prospective residents “that families would move in if the Negroes were segregated, but they would not if they are not segregated.”

    A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

  • New York City deserves credit for maintaining the Red Hook Houses, as well as the city's other 333 public-housing developments, even while other cities have been forced to abandon or demolish theirs.

    An Elevation in Red Hook Dana Rubinstein 2011

  • This is particularly true of the Red Hook Houses, Brooklyn's largest public-housing development, with an official population of more than 6,000.

    An Elevation in Red Hook Dana Rubinstein 2011

  • After all, we still have plenty of poor people in the US who would be happy to occupy vacant houses — the problem is that they were built with a par value in mind, not public-housing returns vanya says:

    Matthew Yglesias » What Would a Property Bubble in China Look Like? 2010

  • Tuesday by detectives who found her hiding in a fourth-floor apartment in the Cypress Hills Houses, a public-housing development in East New York, a law-enforcement official with knowledge of the case said.

    Woman Is Killed Over $20 Debt Tamer El-Ghobashy 2011

  • He was found by police responding to a 911 call from a woman who spotted the body behind a high-rise building in the Lincoln Houses , a public-housing development on Madison Avenue where Mr. Willis lived.

    Missing Teen Found Dead in Snow Tamer El-Ghobashy 2011

  • The contrast between the beauty of the house and my own circumstances that summer -- the public-housing flat I was using had an outdoor concrete staircase that reeked of urine -- made me feel like an impostor.

    Janet Byrne: Nicole Krauss's 'Great House' Reviewed Janet Byrne 2010

  • The contrast between the beauty of the house and my own circumstances that summer -- the public-housing flat I was using had an outdoor concrete staircase that reeked of urine -- made me feel like an impostor.

    Janet Byrne: Nicole Krauss's 'Great House' Reviewed Janet Byrne 2010

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