Changes in public housing bring fresh start for families, By Timothy Pratt, November 16, 2009, Las Vegas Sun: “Shea Hampton-Earl’s living room is empty, but her head is full of ideas. This spring, she will plant a garden with tomatoes and collard greens in the back yard of the house she just moved into. And in a few years, the 36-year-old mother of seven wants to buy the house with its path that leads to a park in the back and a tree-lined street in the front. Only two months ago, Hampton-Earl’s front door opened onto the pop of pistols and the hum of police helicopters overhead. There were no gardens, no parks. Hampton-Earl’s family lived in one of the 250 apartments at Ernie Cragin Terraces, a public housing complex scheduled to be turned into dust early next year. The single mother and her children are living through the biggest change in Las Vegas Valley public housing since the 1940s…”
Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty