As America’s First Racially Integrated Housing Project Is Rebuilt, Ripples of Displacement Follow
“To pay for the rebuild, public lands have been sold to private developers. A decade into the $1.7-billion effort, about half of the property has been redeveloped. Only a handful of the remaining row houses are still occupied. Most are boarded up, waiting for the demolition crews that are expected to finish the teardown by early 2020. The fenced backyards behind each unit, once lovingly tended by longtime tennants, now grow wild inside a temporary ring of chain-link.”