What cycle of violence and poverty?

Holmberg has a follow-up article on this story, with reader response and commentary:

Forgive me for repeating myself, friends, but we have to tear down Richmond’s subsidized housing projects. They are concentration camps — concentrated poverty, concentrated illiteracy, concentrated substance abuse and sexual abuse, concentrated illegitimacy, concentrated teen and preteen pregnancy.Too often, the single women and girls who live there become a captive audience for drug dealers and other smooth operators in the’hood. Every other city with a working dome light is getting rid of these failed social experiments.But in Richmond, we’re busy bickering over a performing-arts center while whole neighborhoods and clusters of citizens are on fire. It’s an emergency situation.There are much better ways to house our poorest citizens, as other cities are finding out — as we found when we demolished the Blackwell project.