Public housing: The myths, the facts, the HBO show

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By Natalie Y. MooreAug 31, 2015, 3:19 pm53 pts
HBO’s Show Me a Hero, which ended last night, cuts right to the stereotypes about public housing: It breeds crime and hatred toward the police, tenants don’t want anything better in their lives, surrounding property values go down. The six-part miniseries is based on a true story. In the 1980s, a court…

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