CHA closes last building at notorious Cabrini-Green

Chicago Housing Authority ^ | Dec. 9, 2010 | Chicago Housing Authority - Office of Communications

[1010RD]

Yep right between their beach house and the shore or “on property”.

Can you imagine Barbara Streisand hosting?

[1010RD]

Remember the sky bridge that fell into disrepair that allowed you to race past the place?

My sister chased two black kids into there to try and recover a stolen skate board. You should have seen the look on the faces as this four foot high twelve year old enter the basketball courts packed wall to wall. Luckily my dad and the cops recovered her without any damage.

[USS Alaska]

Without even reading any responses, regardless of what you post, all postings will be:

[traderrob6]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mM95AwDgask

[Charles Martel]

Just screwing up new neighborhoods. Making new Cabrini-Greens wherever they go.

Yep. LOL at that "new mixed-income community" baloney. Oh, it may start out "mixed", but that won't last very long.

[elcid1970]

In the late 1970’s I used to drive interstate past the Robert Taylor projects on the way to Fort Sheridan.

They looked more like high rise prisons than dwellings. Last one was imploded in 2007, IIRC.

[outhousepatrol]

Property values have plummeted
Home to RATS and occasional mouse
Cabrini Green? Nope
The Obama White House!

LOL

[oprahstheantichrist]

"You should have seen Turtle Creek...."

Yep. I briefly lived in an apt. off of Baldwin just northeast of there around 1985. It went all Sec 8 right after that, and is still scary and run down.

[Dilbert San Diego]

You hit the nail on the head. Political correctness does not allow us to discuss the real issues involved with people living in poverty. We can’t discuss the reasons why some people end up that way. We can’t discuss productive ways to get them out of poverty. We can’t discuss what will happen to nice neighborhoods if we have them live in scattered Section 8 developments.

Instead, we are supposed to repeat liberal mantras that they are grappling with poverty due to no fault of their own, that poverty and gangs and drugs just happen to them for unexplained reasons, that multiple babies and the whole “baby mama” culture just happens for no reason, etc. etc. But in our compassion, we are supposed to want to help people who are grappling with poverty. So, Cabrini-Green was a hell hole? We don’t ask why it was a hell hole, we just move people around and are shocked if their new homes become hell holes.