Allequippa Terrace was one tough place. Once a state-of-the-art public housing development, it eventually fell on hard times along with most other communities of its type. A high concentration of poverty-level residents now seems so obviously wrongheaded that we have forgotten that "the projects" represented progressive thought when they were built. And this story should end there, but it does not. Maybe it was anxious bureaucrats or some hangers-on who had made political promises that this would turn out differently, but somebody got to the new mayor and changed his mind.