{"id":464,"date":"2014-05-13T14:04:54","date_gmt":"2014-05-13T14:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/?p=464"},"modified":"2014-05-13T14:09:49","modified_gmt":"2014-05-13T14:09:49","slug":"464","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/?p=464","title":{"rendered":"New Haven starts removing controversial fence between public housing and neighboring Hamden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_465\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/fence.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-465\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/fence-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"A front loader took down a section of the New Haven-Hamden fence on Monday\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-465\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/fence-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/fence-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-465\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A front loader took down a section of the New Haven-Hamden fence on Monday<\/p><\/div>New Haven began demolishing a fence on Monday that for 50 years separated a public housing complex in the city from the town of Hamden.  For some, the fence had become a symbol of racial and economic division between two communities. The economic dividing line here is actually not one of the starkest in a state with one of the widest income disparities in the country. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/?p=180\" target=\"_blank\">most recent Census figures show median family income<\/a> on the New Haven side was around $33,000, and it was about $70,000 on the Hamden side. But few places have anything as symbolically and literally divisive as the fence. <\/p>\n<p>Listen to Craig LeMoult&#8217;s story here:<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-464-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/lemoult_fence_web_140512.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/lemoult_fence_web_140512.mp3\">http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/lemoult_fence_web_140512.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Haven began demolishing a fence on Monday that for 50 years separated a public housing complex in the city from the town of Hamden. For some, the fence had become a symbol of racial and economic division between two communities. The economic dividing line here is actually not one of the starkest in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,14,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-housing","category-income","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=464"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":470,"href":"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions\/470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}