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Pruitt-Igo and Caprini Green Housing Projects

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Discussion – Pruitt-Igo and Caprini Green Housing Projects
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Jul 13, 2021Jul 13 at 12:35pm
Pruitt-Igo and Caprini Green Housing Projects
Pruitt-Igo green housing projects were an idea in the right direction and an application of entrepreneurial skills in solving one of the most basic problems of our time which is housing. The housing project which was first occupied in 1954 in Missouri became notorious for its poor living condition, poverty, crimes, and racial segregation that eventually doomed the development of the project to the point of being demolished with high explosives by the mid-70s. For all its failures, the development project represented a collective failure of the planning and development framework.
Although the project was supported by federal government funds, the maintenance and repairs of the buildings were not subsidized which meant that money paid for rent was effectively supposed to cover any maintenance and repairs of the buildings. Given the fact that these buildings housed the majority of black people of low income and the excessive vacancies, the financial as wells as physical condition deteriorated.
Levy, J. M. (2017). Contemporary Urban Planning (11th ed.). Routledge.
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Jul 25, 2021Jul 25 at 1:48pm
Based on the reading of different articles, the Pruitt-Igo and Caprini Green housing projects both had very similar issues associated with them (Modica, 20092). These two housing developments were both associated with a high percentage of African Americans who all relied on low-income housing to survive. These two housings were very large, housing thousands of lower-class African Americans. Both communities had poor living conditions as far as maintenance, structural appearance and a lot of crime and gangs activity. The initial build of the Pruitt-Igo projects were an attempt to solely congregate lower income blacks to a particular area to attract more middle-class families being due to the conditions, the city had seen a decline of 6000 plus residents from the area (Modica, 20092). This situation created a domino effect of problems for the blacks in those communities. Due to the high number of high crime, poverty and the effects of WWll, it led to cutbacks in social programs, education and different services provided to blacks in those homes.
What makes the situation with the Capri Green projects different is that this city where the housing projects were located in was home to 15,000 people mostly middle and upper class (Wikipedia, 2021). In fact, these housing projects were within a mile of a lot of high-end stores and neighborhoods. Things got so bad in the community housing these blacks in regard to maintenance, pollution by the residents and crime that; windows were boarded up, balconies were fenced in to prevent residents from throwing trash off it and or killing themselves or falling from them. This gave an appearance of a large “prison” type living area which further frustrated the blacks living in the conditions. All in all, the majority of the buildings from both communities were torn down in the hopes of gentrification. The Chicago area were able to benefit from the demolition of those homes, but the St. Louis area wasn’t so lucky, the area was said to have been covered with trees due to unkept landscaping.
References
Modica, A. (20092, December 19). PRUITT-IGOE HOUSING PROJECT, ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI (19561976). Retrieved from Black Past: https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/pruitt-igoe-housing-project-st-louis-missouri-1956-1976/#:~:text=The%20Pruitt%20-Igoe%20Housing%20Project%20was%20located%20in,and%20the%20William
Wikipedia. (2021). CabriniGreen Homes. Retrieved from Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CabriniGreen_Homes

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