Housing to Replace Shacks in Poorest U.S. County
United Press International
TUNICA, Miss. —
The 100 shacks making up the Sugar Ditch neighborhood--a slum with open sewage in the poorest county in the nation--will be razed beginning Monday and replaced with a federally financed housing project, city officials have announced.
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