Saving Phoenix's Obsolete Ghetto
14 April 2001 - 10:00am
Despite obsolete public housing, its residents fight to keep the Phoenix housing projects.
"Plagued by bad plumbing, faulty electrical wires and high crime rates, Phoenix's biggest public housing complex could soon be a mere footnote in the city's history books.But many of the 965 residents of the Matthew Henson projects in south-central Phoenix would rather put up with constantly clogged-up toilets and throngs of cockroaches than leave their city-owned apartments," fearing that the city will not replace them.
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The Arizona Republic, April 14, 2001
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