In the late 1930s the Seattle community of Japanese suffered a substantial loss when large parts of Nihonmachi (the city's Japanese district) were confiscated and torn down to make way for the Yesler Housing Project, a planned development of low-cost housing.
Was there a definite reason why the city government selected this particular area of the Emerald City for their housing project, or was this simply a case of anti-Japanese prejudice?