Guam's atomic veterans and cancer survivors, left out of a major federal compensation program twice in the past year, are ...

The massive Pruitt-Igoe public housing complex, looking east. The 33 buildings covered 57 acres. The corner of the project at left is at Jefferson and Cass avenues. On Sunday, Oct. 20, 1929, the ...

Cities are often described as living archives of human memory. Walk through an old neighborhood in an Islamic city like Fez in Morocco or Cairo in Egypt, and you can see layers of history in its ...

ADAMS — Following an international search, Berkshire Arts and Technology Charter Public School’s board of trustees has appointed Jonathan Igoe as BART’s next executive director. Igoe has served as ...

Good intentions tend to carry far more weight than they should in some spheres. Public housing is unquestionably one of them. While the arguments in Howard Husock’s The Projects: A New History of ...

New York City democratic socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani has made “affordability” his top selling point and a freeze on the rents of nearly 1 million city apartments as a key element. Should he prove ...

JACKSONVILLE — Jacksonville State football has been corresponding with the NCAA about trying to hire Jeremy Pruitt, and modifying his show-cause order. Between the two, at least five letters have been ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Past residents of Pruitt-Igoe (which was demolished in the 1970s) recall trucks releasing a dense chemical fog into their streets ...

John “Skip” Igoe Jr., the commercial real estate developer who helped create Google’s Bay View Campus, has died at the age of 83. Igoe’s career spanned more than six decades and was marked by the ...

Once hailed as a modern solution to urban poverty, Pruitt-Igoe quickly fell into crisis. Poor planning, racial segregation, and political neglect turned it into a national symbol of failure. Johnson ...