Not enough has been written about the decrepit state of the U.S.'s public housing projects. HUD, the federal agency that nominally oversees the country's public housing, sends investigators out to evaluate the housing and posts the overall scores on its website. I recently downloaded these scores and analyzed the numbers to see whether anything jumps out.
Here's a chart showing each state's average score. North Dakota barely edges by the 60 out of 100 passing threshold.
But then there's Hoboken, NJ, that has truly awful scores, among the nation’s worst. I'm still waiting on a few freedom of information requests to find out why. Here's a map of Hoboken's public housing locations.
