So sad, Cabrini Green being torn down
Most people have probably heard of Cabrini Green, one of the notorius high rise housing projects in Chicago knows for drugs and violence. I remember sitting in the stands at Comiskey Park, looking out to see Cabrini Green across the highway. You could see burn marks on the walls where people had started fires. This article talks about the process of them going away and where they are moving people that used to live there. The towers of Cabrini Green are a prime example of how public housing has often been a failure. I am not saying it was not needed, just that in many cases it has not been well executed, and not just in Chicago. The article even mentions that at one point 15,000 people lived in the buildings there, that is just scary. What a surprise that crime ensues when you have people crammed in there like that in buildings that are not taken care of properly.
Read about it here:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=2026&ncid=716&e=26&u=/latimests/20050301/ts_latimes/itsbleakbutitshome
Read about it here:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=2026&ncid=716&e=26&u=/latimests/20050301/ts_latimes/itsbleakbutitshome
posted by bigalsbeans at 2:14 AM
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It's funny how the city is going to be doling out all this money to move these people and tear down the building rather than enforce building codes, where the money would come out of the owner's pocket. Ever see that movie "The Super"?
Well in this case the housing authority is the one responsible. I wonder if such a housing development (not just Cabrini, but dozens like it around the country) were ever really a good idea to begin with.
By the way, how did you find my blog? But glad you did, feel free to read on. And so quick, I just posted that about ten minutes ago.
Peoria tore down one of its more crime ridden public housing projects several years ago and replaced it with what are basically row houses. They tried to get people to buy rather than rent them without much success - although the new homes are much nicer, the surrounding neighborhood is still not a good place to be late at night.
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