Some of them may be OK, for NYC standards (lots of non-project housing there is, in my opinion, unlivable), but that doesn't make them nice. A lot of the proble

Some of them may be OK, for NYC standards (lots of non-project housing there is, in my opinion, unlivable), but that doesn't make them nice. A lot of the problems that people imagine, when they think of the projects, are real. You should come to Vienna (Austria). They're clean, well-kept, entirely safe, and with gardens in the courtyards that are simply amazing. Beautiful flowers, hardwood floors, lots of windows. For the record, I lived in east Baltimore.