Posted on 09/10/2016 2:00:08 PM PDT by Scarpetta
On the South Side, a 22-year-old Chicago man the police said was a gang member was shot to death May 27 inside a Washington Park apartment described as “a known gang hangout.”
At another South Side apartment, a 25-year-old man was gunned down along with another man on Valentine’s Day. At a house in Englewood, three people were shot and killed May 12.
These killings — part of the city’s surge in violence — all occurred at a home or apartment whose rent was covered totally or in part by the federal government through Section 8 “housing choice” vouchers issued by the Chicago Housing Authority.
When the CHA began tearing down crime-ridden high-rise public housing projects like Cabrini-Green and the Robert Taylor Homes under its massive “Plan for Transformation,” residents were promised a better life. But 20 years later, many of the people receiving housing vouchers from the CHA are living in privately owned homes and apartments on blocks plagued by violence, drug dealing and gangs.
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Pretty long surge. Been surging about forty years.
Thank goodness the Chicago police aren’t killing thugs like Michael “strong-arm” Brown. Otherwise the commies at BLM would be turning the city upside down.
#BlackFeralsMatter
Sadly, this is why the vertical ghettoes were built in the first place. They take up less taxable land and use fewer city resorurces.
Actually, the worst of them (the Robert Taylor projects) were built on the east side of the Dan Ryan Expressway in an effort to keep the ghetto from spreading to the west side of it (which, coincidently, included the neighborhood where the elder Mayor Daley lived and grew up).
Didn’t work.
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