Northern Reaches: Graffiti

Ring Road Dept: Past the busy ring road and the northern reaches of Paris, the house sits just a few hundred metres from what people here call the vertical slums. Apartment towers that appear condemned, the canvases for generations of graffiti. At the top of one building, a vulgar suggestion is aimed at a police chief from two decades ago, according to The Star. Tuberculosis is on the comeback and cLICHY-SOUS-BOIS, FRANCE The banner on the quaint stone house with the red pitched roof doesn t mince words: SUBURBAN CRISIS MINISTRY. Inside, broken apartments. Elevators that don t work. People who don t, either. There are so few jobs that the so-called ministry started paying youth to bring groceries up the dank stairwells. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.