I don't see what's curious or funny about that, although I do see that you're trying to make a tie between a "gamble" and a Carter project into a sarcastic joke.

I don't know Bethlehem very well and didn't even know it had casino gambling, but it makes sense that a housing development for lower income people might be put up near a casino. In all the cities other than top-end parts of Vegas and Atlantic City, where mega-billlion real estate surrounds the fancy casino areas, many of the neighborhoods surrounding casinos are rather urban and bleak. It seems like it'd fit to put up decent, modest housing in a place near where folks who're trying to work their way out of poverty might live or work now (or work in the future at, perhaps, the casino). And it'd be a boon to the area by improving the surrounding neighborhood through a single-family-zoned development instead of letting pawn shops and soon-to-be empty, vandalized storefronts creep in.