Across America poverty-stricken public housing projects are being torn down. But many residents don't want to leave.
"All over the country, some of the nation's biggest and most poverty-stricken public-housing projects are coming down. Finally, the inner-city high rise has been declared an irredeemable failure. As federal and municipal agencies demolish more than 100,000 units of public housing nationwide -- roughly 10% of the entire public-housing stock -- it hopes to remove people from vertical slums and place them in racially and economically mixed neighborhoods. But that goal has been complicated by the reluctance of many project residents to leave."
Thanks to Chris Steins
FULL STORY: As Housing Projects Are Destroyed, The Poor Resist Orders to Move Out
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