All across the land HUD is re-eval...
All across the land HUD is re-evaluating the way it plans and builds public housing. "In the past, public housing was a place many times divorced from the city around it," says Gilbert Rosenthal, principal with architect Wallace Roberts & Todd of Philadelphia. His firm has been involved in a number of public-housing-related devises in Philadelphia, New Orleans and Jackson, Fla. "The common thinking at HUD is that the idea of concentrating excessively poor families in one location is not working," said Rosenthal. "The goal now is to create
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