April 10, 2015
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Where I found a muddy lane,
I left a broad highway; where I found a barren wate, I left a
hospital; where I found a disease-breeding row of tenement houses,
I left a health center...Throughout life, whereever I have found
a thistle I endeavored to replace it with a rose -- Boston Mayor James
Michael Curley
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While a new health center is a fine thing, did he replace the "disease-breeding row of tenement houses" with new affordable housing? Or did he just displace the poor, without any aid in finding new homes?
Or did he just displace the poor, without any aid in finding new homes?
Exactly.
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