...When I lived in Charlotte in the late 80s the Earle Village Projects were a mess....the 1990 census couldn’t tell how many people were “staying”* there....so they sent census takers to go door to door and do a physical count...a census taker knocks on the front door, and some black guy runs out the back door....drugs, shootings, illigitimate children, stolen cars, gambling, parole violators, community organizers all contained in public housing just a couple of blocks from down town.
*Q: “Say Jamal, where you stay at?”
A: “Oh I stays down aroun’ Earle Village”
Earle Village is now gone, razed to the ground. The area is now called the Garden District and is one of the more desirable areas to live. There is still low income housing in the Garden District, but it is blended in what they call multi-income homes and not concentrated in one area.
Here is a link to website that shows what most of the Garden District looks like today.