Another great factor that led to the “urban crisis” was public housing. Within Detroit we saw a major decline in public housing. Our housing was racially segregated, concentrated in mainly black neighborhoods, and had a large gap between whites and blacks. Many black individuals were relocated to highway projects and were moved away to urban renewal. The public housing was very slow to desegregated and slow to finally offer equal housing to whites and blacks. Even in the late 1950’s this issue was still unresolved and they pushed blacks into overcrowded
