The Public Interest

High-rise housing for low-income families

J. S. Fuerst & Roy Petty

Spring 1991

AMONG THE shibboleths most widely held by urban planners, social scientists, architects, and self-appointed advocates for the poor is that high-rise buildings are unsuitable places for poor families with children.

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