Steven Greenhut: Redevelopment Ghosts Haunt the New Year

California’s 1940s-era urban-renewal program,
known as “redevelopment,” died an unexpected death in June 2011
when Gov. Jerry Brown signed a law killing the agencies.
But redevelopment’s longtime critics have had a hard time
celebrating their victory, writess Steven Greenhut, given the
endless efforts to reanimate it.

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