Greg Rosalski
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658 appearances
8 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 1 Jul
Greg Rosalski’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Probably their most famous research looked at what happens when low-income kids move to more affluent neighborhoods.
Which, obviously, was a very promising result.
But Raj says it was a little hard to use what they learned as a model for generating upward mobility everywhere.
HOPE VI, that program we were talking about with Wysina before.
The idea behind the policy was not to just replace rundown old housing projects with newer housing projects.
It was to change the way public housing interacted with the cities that surrounded them, specifically to desegregate neighborhoods economically.
And you could see the change in the neighborhoods in this really physical way.
Wysina, the woman from the Richard Allen homes in Philadelphia, she still lives there today.
She's actually the tenant council president.
And when I was down in Philly, she offered to take me on a tour.
Love it.
Some of the buildings in the Richard Allen homes were built during Hope Six.
Some of them were old ones that never got knocked down.
First, she took me to see one of the old buildings.
On both sides of the street were these three-story tall brick apartment buildings.
Wysina told me that back in the day, none of those buildings had doors onto the street.
Like it was just one long brick wall with a few windows for the length of the whole block.
You didn't have a door.
Your door was in the inside.
So it was kind of, it was like closed off to the street.
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