In cities [other than New York] public officials unceremoniously dumped poor residents displaced from urban renewal and highway projects into nightmarish public housing projects concentrated in existing, poverty-stricken black neighborhoods. A second ghetto was thus born on top of the first. Hirsch and many of those who have followed in his footsteps at most acknowledged management problems, but their own liberal political instincts stopped them from attributing widespread failure to glaring governmental deficiencies. Did this second ghetto, however, have to be as horrific as it became in Chicago, St. Louis, or Newark?
Let's look at an example: Baltimore, Maryland's infamous Flag House Courts.
Bibliography
Nicholas Dagen Bloom. Public Housing that worked: New York in the Twentieth century. Philadelphia: U Penn Press, 2008.