>>1585545the housing projects did what they were supposed to do when built in the 1940s and 50s, which was moving people out of tenements and into modern complexes with amenities like proper electricity, proper plumbing, heating, etc. designed with Le Corbusier's principles, the city-in-the-garden-type arrangement... but very quickly they were blighted because of the demographics, and the ensuing crime, with selectivity becoming looser and looser so that most everyone inside ended up being welfare-recipient incapacitates, and whites being the first to NOP on out into cheap houses in the rural outskirts of the city, or outside the city, or anywhere really but these violent hellholes. By the 1970s and 80s, the housing projects were apocalyptically bad, and they still stand today, as blights on the community. So now, the urban planning scheme is to install affordable housing alongside richer housing, not in separate complexes, but in the same building. Mixed-income or something, they call it. NYC demands this of all new projects, even high-end towers having affordable components most of the time, unless the developer offsets this requirement somehow.
