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America's public housing crisis may worsen with Trump budget

  • Written by Lawrence Vale, Ford Professor of Urban Design and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
imageA resident of New York City Housing Authority's Chelsea-Elliot Houses.AP Photo/Mary Altaffer

The loss of more than 80 lives in London’s Grenfell Tower fire on June 14 was tragic and wholly preventable.

It is no coincidence, though, that it happened in subsidized low-income housing.

As someone who has spent 25 years researching and writing...

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