Drawings from an earlier Prospect Plaza redevelopment brochure. The new plan replaces three high-rise towers with three sites of low-rise housing and community amenities.
A stalled redevelopment left Prospect Plaza vacant for a decade. The new scheme replaces some—if not all—of the public housing, and adds hundreds of affordable units.
A large population, demographic diversity and prosecutors’ commitment to punishing bias are factors. Some believe too much crime–and others too little–falls into the category of “hate.”
While there’s disagreement among child welfare officials and advocates about all we can do to prevent broken adoptions, there is consensus on a few common-sense steps.
One hundred seventy-nine Republicans and a lone Democrat did.
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