From Housing Project To New Urbanist Development

"The demolition was the final step in a seven-year, $91 million effort that renovated some buildings, bulldozed others, and replaced a dense project of 1,324 apartments with a neighborhood-style development for just 408 households - many of them in traditional houses.The new Richard Allen and the other pieces of public housing across the city that are being redeveloped in the same 'new urbanist' style represent a gamble. The bet is that if public housing tenants get nicer homes with more neighborhood-friendly designs, then crime, blight and misery will decline."