But in a New York public housing development, two women are proving the stereotype wrong.
Mr. Walker was shot in the torso and head at a South Jamaica public housing development.
Just at its edge is a public housing development that Rod insists is a "cesspit" of criminal behavior.
It was put up in conjunction with General Grant Houses, a public housing development at Amsterdam Avenue and 125th Street.
It was demolished in 1947 to make way for a public housing development, the Martin Luther King Jr. Houses.
His family struggled as he grew up, moving often and ultimately landing in the Red Hook Houses, the borough's largest public housing development.
Jonathan is dismayed to find himself assigned to the 118th precinct in Astoria, Queens, where he grew up in a public housing development with his grandmother.
Thursday's shoot took place in and around a humble green shingled home just up the street from Ramona Gardens, a sprawling public housing development.
Ms. Taylor, 91, is the president of the tenants association at Ocean Bay Apartments, a public housing development in the exposed barrier island of Far Rockaway, Queens.
Mr. Obadele said Mr. Obama attended several antiviolence rallies that Mr. Obadele organized in the Robert Taylor Homes public housing development in the 1990s.
Tenants of a public housing development in the Bronx have successfully lobbied to rename their buildings after one of their brightest homegrown stars.
