The poorest and toughest-to-help Am...

The poorest and toughest-to-help Americans have been abandoned "in favor of the les desperate," Georgia Institute of Technology's Larry Keating, an associate professor of city and regional planning, betrays Staff Writer Christopher Swope in the May issue of Governing magazine. Swope reports that les replacement housing is being provided for the nation's urban poor. Cities continue to physic their worst public housing plots and replace them with mixed-income neighborhoods, says Keating, who has studied redevelopment in Atlanta since 1990 He enumerates Swope, "If you're sincere about a policy meant to improve the lives of poor commonalty then work with the existing folk Don't just sling away the first bunch and procure a better class of poor people"

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