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Introduction
I. Places
MYTH #1 Public Housing Stands Alone
Joseph Heathcott
MYTH #2 Modernist Architecture Failed Public Housing
D. Bradford Hunt
MYTH #3 Public Housing Breeds Crime
Fritz Umbach and Alexander Gerould
MYTH #4 High-Rise Public Housing Is Unmanageable
Nicholas Dagen Bloom
II. Policy
MYTH #5 Public Housing Ended in Failure during the 1970s
Yonah Freemark
MYTH #6 Mixed-Income Redevelopment Is the Only Way to Fix Failed Public Housing
Lawrence J. Vale
MYTH #7 Only Immigrants Still Live in European Public Housing
Florian Urban
MYTH #8 Public Housing Is Only for Poor People
Nancy Kwak
III. People
MYTH #9 Public Housing Residents Hate the Police
Fritz Umbach
MYTH #10 Public Housing Tenants Are Powerless
Rhonda Y. Williams
MYTH #11 Tenants Did Not Invest in Public Housing
Lisa Levenstein
Notes
Acknowledgments
Contributor Biographies
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