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I hope they at least clean out some of the worst offenders with the total rehab of that complex. I think currently it's only 50% occupied.
I also saw they're finally doing a gut rehab of the Lantrop Homes as well. I use to pass those every day, although they didn't seem to be anywhere near as dangerous as some of them.
Sometimes the low cut projects seem worse then the High Rises...
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I did not know low-rise projects like those existed in Chicago. Altgeld Gardens looks like projects in the South.
Well you say "Southern" but that's not the style. Rather, that particular housing project was built in 1945 and is indicative of the New Deal era housing projects made prior to the 1950s. You can find projects like this not just in Atlanta, New Orleans, Birmingham, or Memphis but also in Chicago like was shown above, Baltimore, Cleveland, even Philadelphia.
It wasn't until after the Second World War when the massive high rise commieblocks like the towers of Cabrini-Green (even Cabrini-Green's first phase were rowhouse blocks) or Pruitt–Igoe in St. Louis (if you aren't aware of what happened with that disaster, you should read up on it) were constructed. Although there are a few exceptions, the majority of pre-war public housing was low rise.
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I thought TRUE housing projects were destroyed in just about every U.S. city by now? I know Minneapolis' were all leveled by 2002. Even in Chicago, I know the major ones (Stateway Gardens, Henry Horner, Cabrini Green, etc.) have been demolished since at least 2005.
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