The Face of Public Housing Residents Living in Lead Polluted Public Housing

And Way Behind Getting Out

Residents outside the West Calumet Housing Complex in East Chicago, Ind. Lead levels in the soil around the complex far exceed the federal safety standard. CreditAlyssa Schukar for The New York Times

From the NYT, a picture of residents in a northwest Indiana public housing project built on contaminated soil.

What, you were expecting them to look like this?!

Jared Kushner and his wife, Ivanka Trump, leave the Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Fla. The couple’s real estate and investment empire is estimated to be worth as much as $740 million. CreditAl Drago/The New York Times