The problem:
Public housing communities by definition are socially vulnerable: they are only available to lowest income households, with more residents of color and higher concentrations of poverty.
Given a steady national trend of dismantling public housing communities across the nation, a growing number of rent-burdened low-income households are competing for a shrinking number of housing subsidies, leaving many low-income households trapped in substandard, overcrowded housing.
After disasters, in the absence of clear actionable policies for recovery of public housing their fate is open to discussion by different political agendas and local recovery priorities.