ABSTRACT
Public housing is far and away the most widely known form of subsidized low-income housing in the United States. As the oldest and, until recently, largest housing subsidy pro gram, public housing evokes many, mostly negative images in the popular imagination: extreme poverty, grim architecture, neglected grounds, and, not least, crime. Th ough cer tainly true in some places, these images do not portray the reality of most public housing developments.
