By contrast. the public housing that surrounds First Houses. radiating from this epicenter outward to the far reaches of the Nation. is a wholly different setting. The single parent welfare family living in public housing has come to symbolize and to constitute the most intractable and pressing social problem the United States faces today. No other industrial society has any equivalent. In France. for example. where public housing projects are built in the suburbs for fear of defacing the beloved central city. there are occasional reports of troubled projects housing immigrant workers. but the Senate may be sure that these difficulties are modest compared with ours. We have no European counterpart. no European solutions. We are on our own.
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Immigrant workers are associated with troubled public housing projects.