“closing public housing [in a place like Cairo, Illinois] ... is the equivalent of losing the major employer in town and all the jobs and opportunity related to it,” Jenny Schuetz in the Wall Street Journal. Schuetz is a Fellow, Metropolitan Policy, Brookings Institution and Senior Scholar, Center for Washington Area Studies
"When holdouts sell, yes, developers win, but so do cities at large, Brooks argues." Washington Post's Wonkblog discussing Center Director Brooks's research on land assembly.
