[denizen467]

Well presumably he's just being tentative on putting the potential crime problems accompanying public housing right on top of schoolchildren visiting libraries. Especially seeing as libraries are supposed to be placid, inviting places of learning for youth, the elderly, and the whole community. Depending on scale these could be as incompatible as putting a factory next to a single family home tract. Keep in mind public housing, over the medium and long term, can turn out more unpredictably, and be harder to alter, than probably any other type of land use -- why plant the seeds of inevitable future political acrimony (or worse) when you don't have to.

Kamin was just setting out some perspective and pushback against what any thinking journalist in this city would suspect at least could be pure, and possibly reckless, political expediency.