Actually you are dead wrong!!! The economics of housing favor high rise projects. The movement of tearing down projects for “townhomes” means that INEVITABLY that the number of housing units will be reduced and the density which would make the housing more affordable will also be reduced. That means that ONLY through public housing programs like section 8 could the poor POSSIBLY live in the inner city. Then you get elected officials running on no new taxes and guess which program gets cut first. So blacks are forced out of San Francisco.. Chicago.. New York.. New Orleans and as much as people want to talk about nicer low rise housing… there is no economic way to keep impoverished or lower income blacks in the city while a hostile government fails to subsidize them.

If Master P is helping to preserve project housing in New Orleans.. he is doing the right thing. Let’s see low rise housing built on new sites to ADD to the housing stock, but keep high rise public housing and reform it. Don’t make it so that ONLY poor people live there. Also reconnect the projects to the city streetscape. Don’t keep them as isolated parks. Restore the street and movement of traffic through these projects so people can reach the streets again and get back into the life of their city. Project housing housed the white working class in the 30s 40s and 50s and gave them the first leg up on their home ownership by giving them densely populated low cost housing. It can do the same for blacks but first we’ve got to re-establish our poor blacks as a workforce and then you’ll see that high rise housing is a real benefit and not a blight!