a very different set of housing policies was pushing middle-class (and less precarious working-class) white families out of the city, and into single-family homes in the suburbs. These included many of the same families that NYCHA administrators had imagined would move into their new public housing developments, which were intended at the start to be racially integrated communities for the striving classes. But racist suburban housing policies would ensure that only white families could escape the city’s decaying urban core, thus creating what is popularly known as white flight. As a result,
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