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Exploring the connection between public housing demolition and rising crime rates
An article in Atlantic Monthly magazine has kicked off a firestorm of controversy. Author Hanna Rosin ties the demolition of public housing projects to a rise in crime in the city of Memphis. Rosin’s critics say she uses circumstantial evidence to unfairly implicate former residents of public housing.
An article in Atlantic Monthly magazine has kicked off a firestorm of controversy. Author Hanna Rosin ties the demolition of public housing projects to a rise in crime in the city of Memphis. Rosin’s critics say she uses circumstantial evidence to unfairly implicate former residents of public housing. Guests: Hanna Rosin, author of “American Murder Mystery” in the July/August 2008 Atlantic Monthly, and Xavier de Souza Briggs, Associate Professor of Sociology and Urban Planning at MIT.