A FRESH PATH TO PUBLIC HOUSING

From: The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) | Date: January 25, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

It is tempting to read about the recent evictions of accused troublemakers and their families from the Old Colony public housing development as the latest chapter in the saga of race in South Boston, and in a way it is. Or you can see the dispute as a sad morality play about three innocent families suffering for the sins of their sons, and that would make sense, too. But the bigger story behind the flap is the quiet revolution in America's public housing, a total rethinking of who gets to live in it and what it is expected to provide.

The goal of this bipartisan revolution is to convert ...

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