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Projects, The

In: Encyclopedia of Street Crime in America
Edited by: Jeffrey Ian Ross
Subject:Urban/Street Crime, American Studies, Crime & the City
Keywords:public houses; public housing

Public housing, known in street vernacular as “the projects,” is government-supported housing provided at little or no cost to very low-income residents. The U.S. government's housing program has gone through a number of changes since its development in the 1930s, but ...

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  Ross, J. I. (2013). Projects, the. In Encyclopedia of street crime in America (Vol. 1, pp. 338-340). SAGE Publications, Inc., https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781452274461.n140
  
  Ross, Jeffrey I. "Projects, The." In Encyclopedia of Street Crime in America, edited by Ross, Jeffrey Ian., 338-40. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2013. https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781452274461.n140.
  
  Ross, J. I. 2013. Projects, The. In: Jeffrey I. Ross Editor, 2013. Encyclopedia of Street Crime in America, Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc. pp. 338-340 Available at: <https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781452274461.n140> [Accessed 14 Aug 2022].
  
  Ross, Jeffrey I. "Projects, The." Encyclopedia of Street Crime in America. Edited by Vol. 1. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2013, pp. 338-40. SAGE Knowledge. 14 Aug 2022, doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781452274461.n140.
  
  Ross, Jeffrey I. (2013). Projects, the In:Projects, the Encyclopedia of street crime in America Vol. 1. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc.; 2013:338-340. doi:10.4135/9781452274461.n140
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