In Focus Today
(2006-08-03)
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CHICAGO, IL
(Chicago Public Radio) -
Chicago's South State Street was once home to the largest stretch of public housing in the United States.
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Today, much of it is gone.
Dozens of buildings have been torn down as part of the city's overhaul of public housing.
The Chicago Housing Authority calls it the "Plan for Transformation" and takes pride in eliminating what it calls "islands of poverty and crime."
But many people who live in the public housing that's left point to another, opposite consequence.
They say there are new concentrations of poverty and crime in their neighborhoods.
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