Wealth, Poverty and Politics by Thomas Sowell

Author:Thomas Sowell
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9780465096770
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2016-09-05T20:00:00+00:00

It was not simply the physical setting that was different. So was the way of life in those early housing projects:

Doors were kept unlocked as kids bounced from one apartment to the next on rainy Saturdays to watch Laurel and Hardy and Hopalong Cassidy on television.49

This was an era when not everyone could afford a television set, but when many people in the housing projects of that era who did have a television set felt safe enough to leave their apartment doors unlocked on Saturday mornings, so that their children’s friends could come visit to watch television with them.e

There was a similar atmosphere in Philadelphia housing projects of that era, as described by black economist Walter Williams, who grew up in a housing project there:

Back in the ‘40s the Homes were not what they were to become— a location known for drugs, killings, and nighttime sounds of gunfire. One of the most noticeable differences back then compared to today was the makeup of the resident families. Most of the children we played with, unlike my sister and I, lived with both parents. More than likely, there were other single-parent households but I can recall none. Fathers worked, and the mothers often did as well. The buildings and yards were well kept.50

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