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I don't know who said Bowen Homes was the worst, but it wasn't. Although Bowen didn't look very bad, it WAS a very rough neighborhood mainly because it was SOOOO BIG. SOOO Many people lived there which made for an explosive situation. But anyway, I've tried Google Mapping some of those old projects and they look like nice apartments and condos now... Atlanta has had no project housing for a couple of years now.
Which is why I say, Atlanta shouldn't be on this list
Well I think this is more historical. Aren't a lot of cities tearing down their projects?
Chicago has torn down all of their highrise projects and are rehabbing the rest - yet it's still winning the poll. In its current state the projects don't exist compared to 10, 20 or 30 years ago.
It was the largest public housing reform in US history. 25,000 housing units were torn down or completely rebuilt. All the notorious highrise projects were flattened.
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The lowrises left in Chicago are still awful for the most part. So are the scattered-site. I see people on my block hanging around in full gangbanging color schemes, selling drugs and occasionally raising hell, and when they need rest they march straight into their comfortable subsidized townhouses paid for by everyone else on the block. It's a joke.
The lowrises left in Chicago are still awful for the most part. So are the scattered-site. I see people on my block hanging around in full gangbanging color schemes, selling drugs and occasionally raising hell, and when they need rest they march straight into their comfortable subsidized townhouses paid for by everyone else on the block. It's a joke.
Well I think this is more historical. Aren't a lot of cities tearing down their projects?
Well, if we're going off of historically speaking, I'd still have to say that Baltimore and Detroit have the worst, THEN the places on this list. I don't think Atlanta's projects ever really LOOKED bad, but they were bad. Neither any in Cali... Those pics of Cali projects do not look that bad...
Well, if we're going off of historically speaking, I'd still have to say that Baltimore and Detroit have the worst, THEN the places on this list. I don't think Atlanta's projects ever really LOOKED bad, but they were bad. Neither any in Cali... Those pics of Cali projects do not look that bad...
I've ended up in Baltimore's projects getting lost but wasn't all that just folks livin...the rowhouse neighborhoods are where the trouble lies. DC projects are like tribe vs tribe and beef with each other over nothing
I've ended up in Baltimore's projects getting lost but wasn't all that just folks livin...the rowhouse neighborhoods are where the trouble lies. DC projects are like tribe vs tribe and beef with each other over nothing
The projects arent bad in baltimore. You were right tho, the regular neighborhoods are worse.
Well I think this is more historical. Aren't a lot of cities tearing down their projects?
Chicago has torn down all of their highrise projects and are rehabbing the rest - yet it's still winning the poll. In its current state the projects don't exist compared to 10, 20 or 30 years ago.
It was the largest public housing reform in US history. 25,000 housing units were torn down or completely rebuilt. All the notorious highrise projects were flattened.
You can see the endless rows of the Robert Taylor highrises at 0:18, 1:40 and countless more gheto highrises in 1:20. There were so many of them that would make a bigger skyline than some of the cities in this country. I heard someone said it so bad the police won't even go in them.
Neither any in Cali... Those pics of Cali projects do not look that bad...
Are you kidding? Some of those projects i posted pics of were literally rated as among the worst/most run down in the nation, by the US dept of housing and urban development. They have problems like mold, bullet holes in walls, broken sewers and appliances, busted lights, no smoke detectors, abandonment/squatters, and of course tons of addicts, drug dealers/hustlers, etc, who don't mind shooting each other or snitches, or robbing people blind. The pics show dilapidated and boarded up budings, dealers standing around, some weeds and trash, two arson events, the scene of a shooting, a dude getting arrested, and a few shooting victims...yet you say its not that bad? You're not one of those people who only thinks highrise projects are bad are you? I do agree the projects in SF and elsewhere in CA are most likely not the worst...but some are pretty bad, no doubt.
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