Myth #11: Tenants did not invest in public housing / Myth #1: Public housing stands alone / Lisa Levenstein, University of North Carolina Greensboro. Myth #2: Modernist architecture failed public housing / D. Bradford Hunt, Roosevelt University -- Myth #3: Public housing breeds crime / Fritz Umbach, Associate Professor, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Alexander Gerould, San Francisco State University -- Myth #4: High-rise public housing is unmanageable / Nicholas Dagen Bloom, New York Institute of Technology -- Policy -- Myth #5: Public housing ended in failure during the 1970s / Yonah Freemark, Metropolitan Planning Council, Chicago -- Myth #6: Mixed-income redevelopment is the only way to fix public housing / Lawrence J. Vale, Massachusetts Institute of Technology -- Myth #7: Only immigrants still live in European public housing / Florian Urban, Glasgow School of Art -- Myth #8: Public housing is only for poor people / Nancy Kwak, University of California, San Diego -- People -- Myth #9: Public housing residents hate the police / Fritz Umbach, John Jay College of Criminal Justice -- Myth #10: Public housing tenants are powerless / Rhonda Y. Williams, Case Western Reserve -- Myth #11: Tenants did not invest in public housing / Lisa Levenstein, University of North Carolina Greensboro.
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