Syracuse.com, April 11, 2016: Syracuse’s public housing creates prisons of poverty; what if they could move to suburbs?
“A map of low-income housing in Onondaga County shows clusters of dots so dense they’re inkblots. They cover the streets of Syracuse’s South Side, Near West Side and North Side. Public policy and public money helped to build the city’s poorest neighborhoods, which have become islands of absence: Jobs, good schools, transportation and safe places to play are largely not there.”