Word: multiproblem
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Surprisingly, 75% of New York's juvenile delinquency is attributable to 20,000 so-called "multiproblem" families. Of these, 2,000 families live in the city's 100,000-family, low-rent housing projects. Brooklyn's famed Fort Greene Houses, one of the world's biggest housing projects (3,500 families: 57% Negro, 18% Puerto Rican) is a $20 million slum with a third of its families on relief. At Fort Greene some residents prefer to use the stairs rather than face the "stench of stale urine that pervades the elevators." "Nowhere this side of Moscow...
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