@@drinkingpoolwater how?? The projects been torn down. He’s not living their no more & anyway the projects was put there in the old days for families & affordable rent. The projects didn’t start out bad.
To people asking yes. A lot of these people are still alive. My family grew up in the Prairie Courts and Robert Taylor’s. Despite what the people may say as a kid I didn’t even realize how impoverished it really was. I just had me some fun and ran the halls from floor to floor daily going to friends and family houses.
Right I didn't realize how poor we were as kids. I didn't even know , I had a fun and great childhood playing in the streets staying outside even after dark But we were poor reall poor. But wouldn't trade a day for anything.
This is great to read. To hear others perspectives. I am trying to get my American Gigolo dream-which is essentially a fancy HIGH RISE and I'm being pushed out by HOA fees. I hate YARDS. So the media's focus on the violence might actually be perpetuating it. I don't think World War 2 vets that built those high rises imagined they would be a generational thing. Upward mobility is an issue and the computer has made it worse. I just found out my UNCLE got his education PAID FOR. 100,000 debt here. Who complains more? Hiim. Not to mention the quality is no longer there in clothing or appliances with outsourcing. MARTIN LUTHER KING and his supporters had THREADS you have to go to ARMANI for these days.
A very long time right after world war 2. Alot of factorys, mills, and businesses closed shop when no longer needed. Alot of people lost jobs and moved. Back then there was alot more Italian and European immigrants. They also left and what was left behind were alot of African Americans. Living in the streets and tents. So the city started building high rise apartments everywhere that were poorly made and nobody to really maintain the buildings but also segregated from more upscale parts of the city.. By the time late 1960s came around the current President LBJ created the "welfare act" and other policies thinking that would help out poor inner city families. The question is did it make it worse or better?
@@tribulation138 they put poor Italians there on purpose on racist shit first then put poor blacks there on purpose and just left them there and didn't even allow married couples only single mothers you could lose your housing if a man lived there and helped out they wanted men out of the kids picture then the government imported in guns and drugs.. They did all the shit on purpose on racist shit same way they killed off martin Luther king Malcolm x all the black panthers put Rosa parks in jails for sitting on front of the bus just look at the times years and think about the way the world was blacks couldn't hardly legally drink from same water fountains or go to same schools or even attend college or get jobs in the 70s and early 80s and the 60s and before was really fucked its 2022 and the police still getting away with shooting little black and Mexican kids in the back and poor whites have it bad 2
A baby and a woman got thrown from the top of the building I was 8 when that happened…now it was a lot of shooting but back then it was a code and it was a lot of love I actually miss them
@@levibondjr4650 what do you mean why? no one knows why shit happened the way it did back then, I grew up in the ida b wells homes. It was choas all the time in these areas, ppl think the violence in chicago is bad now boy if we had actual accurate information back then lord only knows how many murders were happening. Cabrini green got alot of the media hype but robert taylor and ida b wells homes were legit warzones in the 80s luckily i got my ged and joined the military and was able to escape but sadly 99% of the ppl there never had a shot.
One thing they didn't mention was. When the projects were all being torn down developers all over the city made huge money by using a few units for CHA use. It wasn't just thet Northtown Village. It was all over the city. Started I'll say in 1998 1999 2000. Any new city development secretly or not had a few units. They got a kick back in taxes and CHA payed top dollar.
The true story of Candyman that inspired the horror classic film came from a resident of the ABLA Homes in this video (made up of the Jane Addams Homes, Robert Brooks Homes, Loomis Courts and Grace Abbott Homes) located on Chicago’s South Side, where Ruthie May McCoy and 17,000 others lived. The tragic murder of Ruthie Mae McCoy, a lonely, mentally ill resident of the ABLA homes on Chicago’s South Side. On the night of April 22, 1987, a terrified Ruthie called 911 to request help from the police. She told the dispatcher that someone in the apartment next door was trying to come through her bathroom mirror. “They throwed the cabinet down,” she said, confusing the dispatcher, who thought she must be crazy. What the dispatcher didn’t know is that McCoy was right. Narrow passages between apartments allowed maintenance workers easy access, but they also became a popular way for burglars to break in by pushing the bathroom cabinet out of the wall. Although a neighbor reported gunshots coming from McCoy’s apartment, police chose not to break down the door due to the risk of being sued by residents had they done so. When a building superintendent finally drilled the lock two days later, he discovered McCoy’s body face-down on the floor, shot four times.
ABLA homes were on the West Side bruh.... My mother is from the jects documented in this video and my cousin is from ABLA. They're nowhere near each other....
The story of girl X. It hurts. I remember being in 5th grade at the time. The teachers were crying. They pulled us out of class for grief counseling and how to make sure we were safe.
@@IK_4 yeah I'm with you on that, as a black man I understand that before you can address outside issues you must start with the ones your creating for your self. Like. BLK on BLK violence.
Those housing projects and others across America were full of lead paint and the residents are still suffering the health side effects of the lead paint from that to this very day. Government has gentrified the housing projects all across America in 2019 and replaced them with condos and the like...from Boston to Seattle and everywhere inbetween...
IceManLikeGervin Yeah unfortunately that doesn’t just apply to project residents that applies to anyone and everyone who lived 25+ years ago. It doesn’t matter about skin color or public housing lead paint was everywhere.
Generational poverty isn't an accident. It's encouraged intentionally. At this point it's not even divided racially necessarily. There are incredibly poor parts of the country that break black or Latino but there are also the same places for Asians, whites, islanders, etc. We've got a full on class war happening but no one sees it because the rhetoric is racial instead of economic. This serves those at the top who make the rules: division is good for their business.
Yes encouraged because it is not encouraged to work hard, study and take accountability. It is encouraged just to complain, take from the working folks, and blame everyone else for your problems.
@@kalesmonroe2556it's actually A LOT bigger than that, but obviously, you want to keep it simple and focused on the individual when you didn't even consider what the commenter was saying.
That's one of the biggest problems 90% of the tenants there are single moms with kids. It's was a breeding ground for gangs drugs and violence, 90% of kids no father they see the gangbangers and drug dealers with wads of cash, new clothes and cars flashy jewelry
Wasn't always that way. Housing inspections were done in the beginning and professional people lived in them. That soon changed! King Richard wasn't supposed to build those past 6 stories high. People we're used as lab rats by the University of Illinois Chicago that leased them the land! The lease ran out, the damage was done.
I went to Columbia College in Chicago after I left The Bronx. I grew up in the streets! We used to pass Robert Taylor Homes going down past Cermak Ave. it was like you stepped into another world. The city abandoned these people! Period! I knew Vice Lords and Disciples from the south side. My father hung with Black Panthers after Vietnam. My ex is from 76th & Champlain Ave. I used to hangout at Heroes night club! I’m as much a Chicagoan as I am a Bronx boy. Like I said, I’m from the streets. My sister is still living back in The Bronx witnessing hardcore violence everyday! We are Sicilian 🤌🏼
Chicago has been rough for a very long time. Walt Disneys father built his own house in Hermosa back in the 1890s and decided to move after only a few years because the neighborhood was getting bad. That was when the northwest side was first being built!
I know this may sound crazy...as much as shit that went on in the projects but I miss it like hell. I had so much fun there & had family at almost every project you can think of. The Greens, Calumet building (Randolph Towers), Ikes, Parkway, Taylors. It was home and a nightmare wrapped in one.
Thank you for sharing, I'm very interested in these towers. Absolutely insane that people would live in such high rise towers. Which one did you live in, if you don't mind sharing.
Me too, I lived in Ida B Wells on 39th, I lived im stateway gardens on 35th and I had family im Robert Taylor. If you didnt live on state St you aint lived in Chicago
That's how I feel about the 80s in Brooklyn yea it was crazy and crack took over but at the sametime it was so much fun I miss dat shit sometimes I Kno it sounds crazy
I remember being from waukegan going to chicago to the projects. those were some scary times man. my aunt used a lighter just to illuminate the stair way. everywhere smelled like piss. sometimes the elevators would get stuck. im glad those places are gone.
I am a former housing authority resident ( ABLA HOMES),RACINE- ROOSEVELT RD-ASHLAND - LOOMIS COURTS), I LIVED IN 1209 SO RACINE #1305 W/ 4 SMALL BABIES BY MYSELF, BUT HAD FAMILY SUPPORT, LEFT CHICAGO IN 2000 A YEAR AFTER THEY STARTED TEARING THEM DOWN. WENT TO DALLAS TX, FOR 12 YRS, NOW IN PHOENIX AZ BEEN HERE 9 YRS. LOVE IT ! IT'S BEAUTIFUL HERE! AND THE CLIMATE IS SEMI COLD.
5:35 I fw dude I wanna get old feeling like him 🔥 he got that fire in him 17:42 history repeats itself. Rip LA Capone . And I use to wonder why did they call it a PROJECT.. it was exactly what it’s called a project to test the living of multiple black ppl living together with only drugs and guns at reach with no jobs or good education. And after a 20-40 year mark it was time to stop the project and spread them out like a virus and now you have multiple gangs instead of 1 or 2 now you have 3k drug dealers instead of a few in a building smh it’s sad how they did us and the guys that are beefing and killing each other today actually knew their killers as kids smh.
FACTS, THAT'S WHY THE CRIME IS AT AN ALL TIME HIGH ESPECIALLY FROM VIOLENT CRIMES. LIKE CAGING ANIMALS FOR YEARS, FEEDING THEM ENOUGH TO LIVE. THEN RELEASING THEM. HMMMM, I WONDER HOW THEY'LL BEHAVE? (PROJECT)....
The people that planned the housing projects thought they were FIXING society by housing poor widows and orphans! They weren't psychic to know that the era of "free love" and skyrocketing out of wedlock birth was coming! Your conspiracy makes no sense. Racists want to ELIMINATE " human weeds" not pay taxes to breed more of them and seed them all over the place!
I used to work for Renault Robinson he is good man and did a lot for black Chicago. Especially in the police dept in the 60’s after Fred Hamptons assassination. He sued the city and police dept as a cop and won and got more black cops on the force patrolling there own neighborhoods.
There’s a simple solution if you don’t like living in places like this and that’s if you already have a kid you’re struggling to take care of,don’t have anymore and add to your problems. It’s not fair to you,the taxpayers and most importantly the child you intend to have grow up in a situation like this,where they will most likely repeat the cycle.
I’m looking at this video and I’m floored at how obvious they purposely tried to put all the black people in one area away from the rest of society. Those places were huge and there were so many buildings.
It's a tricky situation. For the government they just want the profits of public housing. They don't care about the people in general. But for the people in there, why make your home such an unsafe horrible environment? Raping and murdering your neighbors just don't make sense to me. I don't see how anyone can justify that or blame those actions on someone/something else. It's up to the individuals to change the cycles/patterns and that all starts with family
@matthewjones3422 haha google it thought all the kids google everything now haha your on the rag & don't know what it means go save the environment so you can save the world bs haha lol 🎈
Man you don’t even need a criminal record. I graduated college in 2019, and had been doing okay for myself ever since then. I got COVID really bad this past January, and was laid off from work causing me to fall behind on some bills. Interviewed and found my dream corporate job 2 weeks ago. After I received and signed my offer letter, I passed the mandatory criminal background check & drug tests also, but I got my job offer rescinded late last week because I didn’t have good credit. 🤦🏾♂️Man I worked so hard and I maintained excellent credit the entire pandemic,but I fell on hard times ☝🏽 once, and just like that I was denied employment. I have to take responsibility for my debts, which I always do, but it sure felt a hell of a lot like I was being criminalized due to my recent credit history. Man I swear companies & society will use anything in your past against you, even if it’s all behind you. In my particular case, I was provided an opportunity to rectify the situation but choosing between homelessness and a job is a difficult decision. I know I will find another opportunity but I honestly feel for people who have an actual criminal past. They will probably never ever get a decent job their entire life
It’s all most of them know. They know of nothing else. When those residents filled out job applications, the employers looked at where they lived and rejected every single application. I bet it was hard as hell making it out that death trap being successful.
And for the people wondering how did they get there?? Just remember this was right after civil rights we had no rights before this , we couldn't get jobs and our education was limited.. The govt did this to us after slavery to keep us under even though we were free, we would never elevate that was the plan.. These people were put here due to conditions they didn't choose this ..
Being at the mercy of the state or federal government for your most basic needs of food and shelter is the penultimate nightmare. Every American knows that in such a predicament you're going to have to eat one big S sandwich. But it's only supposed to be very temporary, until you pull yourself back up. So 1) why are the residents so surprised it sucks, and 2) why did so many of them turn a short term fix into a lifetime of miserable reliance??
Because of welfare traps. Its happened to me. I am chronically ill and need medical insurance. I deliberately make less than 1,500 a month just so I can get free Healthcare, because if I made 2,000 dollars, I would be spending money on private insurance and co-pays and deductibles, which would be a net loss for me even though I am working and making more. Losing welfare is like having withdrawals from drugs, and the government needs to change the rules so that people can wean off of welfare and don't just lose it completely
People talk about trenches!!! Chicago was the definition of trenches back in 80s 90s! , but for some reason People assumed cities like New Orleans was worst biggest lies
Agreed. I googled the community today, and found several units on the market for around the original selling price, indicating that the property didn’t appreciate in value. The actual buyers did not see a return on their original investment and as a result are no longer still residents today. I knew it wouldn’t be a success though, I don’t care what particular version of the gentrification dream a property developer is selling, well-to-do and successfully individuals will never want to live next to poor and impoverished people; Think about it like affluent white people refusing to live next to what would be considered to be w hite trash. I’m sorry but the two mentalities are just too different to consider them living together as neighbors, harmoniously. It’s funny how that other lady ended up leaving her husband to raise her kids in a safer neighborhood. My mother is one of 7 and she, several of her siblings, and a few of us kids are first and second generation college grads, respectively. Before my grandfather died, my grandparents had been married 53 years. Growing up my grandfather left home a lot in search of work, leaving my grandma to raise the kids on her own. She never went on public assistance because it almost certainly would’ve forced her to divorce her husband, which is what the welfare system was designed to do; Take the black father out of the home and remarry the mother to government assistance. The cycle then continues
It's probable that the 7 and 8-year-olds were coerced by an older male or influenced by a group to admit to the crime, with the expectation that they would likely be returned to their parents without facing jail time. Furthermore, the adult involved would not be identified. The community is typically aware of who engages in what criminal activities within their community, and it's likely they know whose modus operandi matches this crime.
Yes the whole idea was to breakdown the entire black family and it worked! They knew when they introduced drugs to the black community, many fathers would fall for the hokie doke! Now, kids are raised without a father which makes them more susceptible for them to become single parents living on the system just to start the process all over again.
We as a race will never defeat the enemy without some sort of strong power behind us. We didn’t have a chance from the beginning! We just don’t have what the enemy has to put up fight. Our lives makes up the biblical scriptures. So we we at a loss as a whole.
Anything that the g-vt gets involved in is screwed up.There are 4 economic classes. Rich, middle class, poor, and broke. (I've been broke, eating "Helper" and a can of vegetables a several times a week. Helper = Hamburger Helper, without the hamburger.) With the actions perpetuated on the people, who expected a different outcome? People need to be uplifted and given respect, hope, and schooling, not a foot put down on their necks to keep them down. (I went to a 2 yr trade school, and it changed my situation.) Be blessed, Hezakya, today and always! =) Keep doing what you do!
@@keithparkhill8546 - No, it doesn't. That's why I stopped at 2. I knew I couldn't take care of any more than that. After trade school, it was much easier. Be blessed, Keith, today and always! =)
I already don’t like elevators so if I had to use elevators in those buildings I damn sho wouldn’t be taking no chances, them things could break or could have robbers waiting I’ll rather take my chances with them stairs, either way both could end up in death smh sad asf
Yep it was a known fact not to take the elevator in all of the projects in Chicago. The only people that really took them was old people and disabled people.Thats how dangerous it was especially in the 90s.And only gang members came out at night.It was too risky and scary to walk through the building at night.The hallways and stairways were pitch dark at night. I grew up in chicago and knew alot of people that lived in there.Also what's really crazy is all the apartments were connected! It would be a door in your apartment that led to somebody else's apartment! My mom took me to visit a project home she was visiting a friend and I almost opened a door and my mom made me get away from the door because it was somebody else apartment! I always found that strange. So alot of people would nail the door shut.
Kimberly Dill not wanting to take care of the responsibility of taking care of there children that they helped made leaving the black women to take care of the babies and guess what if she have a son the cycle keep going and going until one black man step up and take care of his responsibilities
The truth is the city didn't allow men to b in the household they wouldn't give the women apartments if there was men there they would check money and deny housing to men and families they literally wanted single parent blacks ...look at the history of the projects all projects are like that ...back in the day w j.g em the italians and Irish lived there the allowed families but w hgv en blacks came they denied men housing they even have men only hotels and women only hotels then they put this 1 dumb bitch on the interview on tv saying they dont need men..the police would go in like wild fire and lock up men kids and everything they had police stations in the projects and they had currency exchanges like 10 steps away to cash the damn welfare checks and they kept drugs and guns around and liquor store walking distance away
I grew up here... I was never afraid or scared...we could play until dusk with no worries of anything bad happening...this was home...I miss this place!!!
If you only moved 79 families to these new town homes , what did u do for the other families that were displaced 🤔and on top of that look at the screening process 🧐
somewhere along the line we've begotten broken boys who grew to be broken men and women who have to take on the role of the man as the head of household. sad and its still that way today although not as bad
Sudhir Kakar The man telling them all the things they want to hear which is “I love you” “I’m going to get us out the projects” this and that and being young you”ll believe that and you end up having baby’s....ALSO the reason they was making mistakes like this was because they moms were single moms not no black male in the home to tell her the things she wanted to hear such as “I love you my little princess/Queen ” or hearing him say that to her mother....So as I was saying it’s a cycle that will never stop unless black males keep doing what they doing to young girls which is leaving them with that empty place of a father figure
Sudhir Kakar They trying one person can only do so much...let’s say You have 3-4 children u have to worry about them getting feed,clothes on there backs,And more the child needs and that’s all on u and you have to make sure u show ur children love when u might not even love your damn self....The grandmas and auntie help but like I just said HELP being a black young women I feel like as if society will never give black women credit for what they do and they won’t show that in the documentaries....!!!!
Sudhir Kakar and how can someone like a auntie,cousin,grandma,or sisters teach something they don’t know themselves.....You learn for examples.....it’s a cycle for black people in general but mostly AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN!!!!
Sudhir Kakar now u getting in to stereotypes 😂😂who that’s really like another race all black women not ghetto,loud or none of that some of us are well educated such as myself so who are u just to go off a group of black women instead of a whole ‼️‼️
The story of Cabrini-Green, is the story of public housing all over the USA. When you put an overwhelming percentage of poor/low-income people in public housing (especially underserved communities of Black, Latino, AAPI and Native American residents), don't do any regular maintenance/upgrades, and allow the properties to fall into squalor and disrepair, you create an environment that breeds anarchy, lawlessness, illegal activities and entrenched poverty. Mix that with the cocaine/crack epidemic of the 80's and 90's, and you have a stewing crock-pot of residents doing whatever they can to survive. Public housing authorities all across the USA are almost always embroiled in scandals like this, because there's no profit in it: they have no incentive to give the most vulnerable citizens a decent a safe place to call home, because their mindset is that a tenant receiving government assistance/Section-8 vouchers, will not appreciate nice things the way a market-rate tenant will (often true, sadly). The fact that people are still being allowed to live in these surviving row houses, crumbling and rotting as they are, is a testament to this.
Now, there is not enough public housing and whole families are homeless! There is no affordable housing for poor and working class families. They could build smaller, affordable housing complexes that are easier to police. This issue impacts all races. 😢
