Lessons on Troubled Housing

Posted by on June 29, 2008

"Today's policy makers should be aiming to intervene early, when neighborhoods first start to fray, Philadelphia housing chief Carl Greene says. 'If you don't intervene when vacancies start to pop up, then the whole block becomes unstable," he says. "It becomes a safe haven for antisocial conduct.'"

How tough is it to revive vacant, abandoned housing?  Read this and weep.