Saving Phoenix's Obsolete Ghetto

Despite obsolete public housing, its residents fight to keep the Phoenix housing projects.

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April 14, 2001, 10:00 AM PDT

"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.

Thanks to Laura Krafft

FULL STORY: This is not a ghetto

Saturday, April 14, 2001 in The Arizona Republic

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