St. Louis: Pruitt-Igoe Massive Housing Projects Documentary.

[mikenike]

thanks

 

[Lucky7s]

Mofos in NYC projects live like kings compared to other parts of the country.

NYC has a bigger tax base to part of your taxes go to NYC public housing or the up keep plus they get federal grands from the gov...

I don't follow what you mean by "kings"


How is that? The cash assistance is based on cost of living...so your comparison is moot.


We seen the inside of the high rises on all kinds of news clips and documentaries...come on bruh...


Cost of living be damned, nobody in the projects is living lavish unless they living foul at the same time.


I wanna say something else about your comment but it will offend you, since you claim to be educated.

 

[BDR]

I don't follow what you mean by "kings"


How is that? The cash assistance is based on cost of living...so your comparison is moot.


We seen the inside of the high rises on all kinds of news clips and documentaries...come on bruh...


Cost of living be damned, nobody in the projects is living lavish unless they living foul at the same time.


I wanna say something else about your comment but it will offend you, since you claim to be educated.

The fuck is your problem? I thought we having a conversation.. What's with the personal jabs?

What I mean by living like kings is folk in the projects get public assistance from the state of NY and benefit from the up keep of the facility.

I can speak on this shit cause I lived it and having been around the country seeing places like Detriot, Philly, Richmond etc the projects in NYC are better maintained than those I've seen in other cities that's all I'm saying

 

[moblack]

Folks laugh at folks in the South but we own our homes. Folks in the country own acres.

 

[ifuno]

The fuck is your problem? I thought we having a conversation.. What's with the personal jabs?

What I mean by living like kings is folk in the projects get public assistance from the state of NY and benefit from the up keep of the facility.

I can speak on this shit cause I lived it and having been around the country seeing places like Detriot, Philly, Richmond etc the projects in NYC are better maintained than those I've seen in other cities that's all I'm saying

No, not really. They are letting a lot of the buildings go into disrepair because the city wants the poor people out. They are working to turn the projects into condos for the influx of professionals coming into the city.

 

[BDR]

No, not really. They are letting a lot of the buildings go into disrepair because the city wants the poor people out. They are working to turn the projects into condos for the influx of professionals coming into the city.

This is somewhat true but not all buildings.. It's only the buildings on waterfront property

 

[Lord T]

Watched this documentary again the other day. Damn, these housing projects really only lasted a little over 20 years (1956-1976). It said by 1960 (it's 4th year) that there were already signs of decline

The guy who designed the Pruitt-Igoe

also designed the original World Trade Center, by Minoru Yamasaki

 

[Mack1052]

This is somewhat true but not all buildings.. It's only the buildings on waterfront property

This.. My fam is in Farragut P's in Bk and shit has had no improvements in years but the neighborhood (Dumbo) looks like a minature soho san shopping boutiques

 

[Lucky7s]

-They were built in 1956 and demolished by 1975, went from 12,000 families to 2400

Anybody from da Lou care to explain where these 12,000 displaced black folks ended up?

When did them lil ass cities outside St. Louis proper become "black" from white flight?

Post 1975?

The Robert Taylor homes were fucked too

The irony of Robert Taylor's father being the first MIT graduate nor his father's role in building college campuses for blacks in Alabama (Tuskeegee, Snow Hill, Rosenwald Schools and other parts of the South is not lost upon me...CACs and nigga ass niggas worked hand in hand to tarnish that man's legacy.

This is a classic case of black "haves" trying to be proper talented tenthers and make a way for the "have nots" and seeing the shit backfire in the end. He can take solace in his granddaughter running shit in the White House though.

Watched this documentary again the other day. Damn, these housing projects really only lasted a little over 20 years (1956-1976). It said by 1960 (it's 4th year) that there were already signs of decline

The guy who designed the Pruitt-Igoe also designed the original World Trade Center, by Minoru Yamasaki

4 years?! Ok...question...the buildings were insured.
Who benefited the most from their decline and eventual demolition?
The irony of this mofo building the WTC buildings full of asbestos and the $1billion insurance payout is not lost on me either.

Read between the lines on the Igoe situation...Ft. Leonard Wood allegedly sprayed all kinds of toxins in the air around these projects to monitor results of biochemical weapons.

Remember that movie "The Happening"...some shit in the air made folks want to kill themselves.

Truth is always stranger than fiction... when it comes to genocide.

Think.

 

[PDQ21]

Like I was saying in the other thread I can relate I was raised in the PJs in Jersey City which had 7 buildings 13 flrs

 

[meilmarc]