A few days before the hearing Van Bramer showed me around the Queens Bridge Houses, the largest public housing development in the U.S. It's less than a mile from the proposed Amazon site.
" More than 20 years ago this was the home to East Lake Meadows, which was one of the nation’s most violent housing developments, and today is probably one of the most promising."
" I could remember his face from the financial crisis. I was like, what is he doing here? " said one resident in a housing development that Jansson visited when trying to buy it on Blackstone's behalf.
The middle classes moved into new housing developments with straight walls and carefully trimmed lawns, and it soon grew clear to Ove that his parental home stood in the way of progress.
Developing subsidized rental housing is one of the priorities of housing development, said the housing ministry, adding that initial progress has been made and experience has been accumulated that can be replicated later.