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Around the country, public housing projects are crashing down. Housing projects are widely considered a failure, but what will replace them as they're torn down? (Photo Courtesy Birgit Kasper and Janet Smith)

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Life outside the projects in Chicago

October 13, 2008

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Chicago was known for having some of the largest and most dangerous public housing complexes in the country. In recent years, however, these projects are being torn down. Chicago, along with other cities, is moving its public housing residents to mixed income housing. The hope is that if poor people move out of areas of concentrated poverty, they'll have more opportunities.

American RadioWorks' producers Chris Farrell and Laurie Stern spent much of the year in the Chicago projects. Minnesota Public Radio's Cathy Wurzer spoke with Farrell.

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