Overview
Howard Husock, author of acclaimed books on housing and communities, adds to his oeuvre with a new, important work, The Projects: A New History of Public Housing, telling the story of how advance-degreed planners amputated America’s big cities – and some not-so-big municipalities – to bulldoze gritty neighborhoods (slums!) and erect hellacious skyward-reaching complexes, all in the name of “urban renewal.” Joined by Reason executive editor Jim Epstein, Husock will discuss how urban planners made mincemeat of local communities, and how public housing policies have continued to fail another captured generation. But the duo will also offer policy recommendations that will map out a better path for policy-makers, he lays a new foundation for upward mobility in America.
