The federal new-communities program failed with only one survivor

Evidence

The government ultimately provided loan guarantees to just 13 developers for projects with a total of 250,000 housing units: The developments would have housed only 785,000 people. By 1973, the Nixon administration had become concerned about the financial viability of the thirteen communities, and two years later federal housing officials decided not to make further loan commitments. Eventually all but one of the communities – the Woodlands was the exception – defaulted. — Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside, 1064