Okay, not a lot of time but I have now plowed thru the entire article and, well, it still comes down to resources... Yes, cumminty gardens are great... Yes, it's great to have Penn Stae kids living in the neighborhopods helping out but isn't that what VISTA and CAP programs "used" to do???

As for the row houses being more efficient... Yes, they are... In richmond, they torn down an entire community of *brick*row houses in the Fulton neigborhood and put up HUD ranchers which are now looking shabby because they were built with 2X4's and asphalt shingle roofs... The row houses coule have been renovated cheaper than what they did and still be standing 100 years from now...

But nevermiond that... Another point is that in many urban areas the middle class and upper middle class people are moving back into the city into the row-house neighborhoods creating "scarcity" in those areas of the city... Washington, D.C. is a prime example... Adams Morgan is now middle class to rich... There aren't any affordable row houses left... They have been scooped up and now very pricey, like in the million dollar range... Same in areas of Southeast... Same in areas around the DC convention ceter on 6th ST which used to be nuthin' but row houses occupied by poor people...

Nuff for now...

Bobert