New Article: Residents Feared Low-Income Housing Would Ruin Their Suburb. It Didn’t.

New Article: John Eligon, Residents Feared Low-Income Housing Would Ruin Their Suburb. It Didn’t, N.Y. Times, (Nov. 5, 2020).

NEW BERLIN, Wis. — When John Blaguski first heard about a proposal to build an affordable housing complex near his home in the Milwaukee suburb of New Berlin, Wis., his mind drifted to stereotypes of crime-ridden, shoddily constructed projects.

“If I wanted to live by low-cost housing people,” he wrote in an email to the mayor at the time, “I would have stayed in Milwaukee County.”

But now, eight years after a legal battle forced the city to allow the development to proceed, Mr. Blaguski, 62, said he regretted his visceral opposition.