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Starrett’s “social engineering”

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Starrett City was “an audacious work of social engineering” that was marketed to middle-class tenants when it opened in 1974. Its planners also strove to people it with what they considered an ideal racial mix: 70 percent white to 30 percent black. Many residents say that over the years the 5,881-unit affordable housing complex fostered a special sense of community. more [NYT]

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