(AP Photo: Paulette Mentor of Mentor House Gallery in Paducah, Kentucky.) During the 1980s and 1990s, the Lower Town neighborhood of Paducah, Kentucky experienced a steady rise in drug use, crime and blight. Despite its adjacency to Paducah’s healthy downtown, the area languished. Fifty-one percent of residents lived in poverty, and dilapidated or abandoned housing was
Affordable housing for artists can have a discernible economic impact. Just ask Paducah.
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