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DC is not what it was in the 90's and it aint even what is was in 2004...DC is on it way to becoming a majority white town and most of the poor people have been pused out to Prince Georges county,MD in neiborhoods like Suitland,Capitol Heights,Seat Pleasant,Oxon Hill,Temple Hills,Bradbury Heights,Walker Mill and Hillcrest Heights...Baltimore projects are far worst than DC...
Baltimore,NOLA, and Chitown are thee worst...lets not sleep on Camden,Newark and The Lou either...but please lets stop with the DC project talk...and ATL also...Atlanta is all hype just like LA...DC is still living off a rep from the 80's and 90's and New york has its bad areas but thats only like 10 projects in a city with 8 million people...that aint ****...
Not really Baltimore projects aint even where most crime happens...they have about 4 total ..cherry hill is the most notorius and thats like Lincoln heights/Clay terrace...DC still has like 9 projects
Even those are fairly special though. The first one is the remainders of the larger projects that were on that site until the past few years. The second and third ones were part of larger complexes town down, and those buildings were all cleared out and fully renovated for families.
It was fairly big news here a few months ago when the very last Cabrini highrise came down. It's such a different feel over in that area now, you'd really have no idea what it was just 10 years ago - let alone 20 years ago.
Within a few blocks of the old development it's like night and day.
Starbucks
REI recreation store
British School of Chicago
a new 3 story 150,000sf Target store
a nice full service grocery store
thousands of new middle to upper class condo units
an Apple Store
the area is ready to blow up with high-end development. There are still the 2 story cabrini buildings left tucked away in the back, although at the moment they're mostly empty as they do a total gut rehab.
Tearing down the horrid projects is certainly one of the reasons the number of murders from January through April, 2011 is at around 100, compared to over 160 back in the early 2000's.
-WOODLAND TERRACE 2311 Ainger Place SE 20020 - Units: 234 - Ward: 8
and those are just city owned housing projects.
There are still privately owned apartment complexes who are under contract to rent to section 8 recipients. Don't sleep on DC!
LOL @ people thinking NYC's projects are so awful and LA's aren't. Anyone voting like this hasn't walked by/through the jects in both cities and has no idea. Lol.
San Francisco has to be the only city in America where less than 10% of the population is Black, yet they still have a bunch of housing projects. San Francisco stands out in this regard.
I can't think of any other city in America with a low percentage of Blacks yet still has housing projects.
I didn't see any housing projects when I was in San Jose and Phoenix, both of which are big cities with a low percentage of Blacks.
San Francisco has to be the only city in America where less than 10% of the population is Black, yet they still have a bunch of housing projects. San Francisco stands out in this regard.
I can't think of any other city in America with a low percentage of Blacks yet still has housing projects.
I didn't see any housing projects when I was in San Jose and Phoenix, both of which are big cities with a low percentage of Blacks.
That doesnt say much in a crowded city of 800,000...plus the fact there arent that many black ppl shows the view the city has on black ppl if thats your logic as to why SF sticks out..thats the "put em in a corner somewhere" technique
San Francisco has to be the only city in America where less than 10% of the population is Black
Wrong, you obviously are going by a stereotype, and haven't actually looked at any statistics. If you did look up the stats you;d see there are many cities in the US with less than 10% black people, including plenty that have less than SF does (including nearby San Jose, which is only 3% black). Here are some more cities that are less than 10% black: Los Angeles, Phoenix, Portland, Seattle, San Diego, Fresno, Denver, San Antonio. Most Western, Northwestern and Southwestern cities have low black populations compared to midwestern, southern and eastern cities.
It is true that most of SF's black population lives in and around the projects though. It's a product of racism from the 40s through the 70s especially, that pretty much every US city saw. SF was different in that most of its black residents were very poor and newly arrived from the south in the 40s and onwards (at first to work in war industries during WWII), but when the war was over and when de-industrialization began, many of those poor blacks were out of work, and they also happened to be living in concentrated temporary housing which was then turned into projects. One black neighborhood (the Fillmore), was also leveled and replaced with housing projects...SF's construction of projects and "ghettoization" of hoods that are still ghetto today, mostly concluded in the 70s, so maybe it's no coincidence that that's when SF's black population began to drop, after peaking at 13% in 1970 (can't blame them for leaving when most are/were living in very crime ridden areas--the only areas affordable to most blacks in SF)...so that's the basis for the situation of SF's black population these days, which is very poor and nearly devoid of a middle class. It's pretty easy to see how many (or most) of SF's ghettos were born because of this.
Wrong, you obviously are going by a stereotype, and haven't actually looked at any statistics. If you did look up the stats you;d see there are many cities in the US with less than 10% black people, including plenty that have less than SF does (including nearby San Jose, which is only 3% black). Here are some more cities that are less than 10% black: Los Angeles, Phoenix, Portland, Seattle, San Diego, Fresno, Denver, San Antonio. Most Western, Northwestern and Southwestern cities have low black populations compared to midwestern, southern and eastern cities.
It is true that most of SF's black population lives in and around the projects though. It's a product of racism from the 40s through the 70s especially, that pretty much every US city saw. SF was different in that most of its black residents were very poor and newly arrived from the south in the 40s and onwards (at first to work in war industries during WWII), but when the war was over and when de-industrialization began, many of those poor blacks were out of work, and they also happened to be living in concentrated temporary housing which was then turned into projects. One black neighborhood (the Fillmore), was also leveled and replaced with housing projects...SF's construction of projects and "ghettoization" of hoods that are still ghetto today, mostly concluded in the 70s, so maybe it's no coincidence that that's when SF's black population began to drop, after peaking at 13% in 1970 (can't blame them for leaving when most are/were living in very crime ridden areas--the only areas affordable to most blacks in SF)...so that's the basis for the situation of SF's black population these days, which is very poor and nearly devoid of a middle class. It's pretty easy to see how many (or most) of SF's ghettos were born because of this.
Nice cherry picking there. If you would have read my entire post instead of cutting and pasting that one line, you would know that I didn't say San Francisco is the only city in the U.S where less than 10% of the population is Black.
I said San Francisco is the only city in the U.S that is both less than 10% Black while at the same time also having a significant number of housing projects.
Name any other city in the U.S that is less than 10% Black, that has as many housing projects as San Francisco does. Like I said when I was in Phoenix and San Jose, I didn't see any housing projects there.
Housing projects are usually found in cities that have a very high percentage of Black people, like Chicago, Detroit, New Orleans, Oakland, etc.
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