housing project
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Blankfein said that because of his childhood — he grew up in a housing project in Brooklyn — he found it difficult for a long time to think of himself as wealthy, despite his fortune.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 17, 2026
The proposed Westside affordable housing project known as Venice Dell has seen it all: neighborhood uproar, lawsuits, clashing city directives to alternatively approve and deny.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026
Clarence Thomas and Sonia Sotomayor came from little in a material sense, he from tiny Pin Point, Ga., she from a Bronx tenement and later a housing project.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026
Other issues also are animating the race, including debate over the response to the Palisades fire and a controversial housing project in Venice.
From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026
The child of a Japanese mother and an African-American father, Peter and his younger sister were raised by his mother alone in a housing project in Newark during the 1950s and ’60s.
From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad
