Jemin Na’s Reviews > High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing > Status Update

The Free Street Theatre's musical "Project!"
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The book's emphasizes the Cabrini-Green residents' lives. Where the children played, what jobs the residents had, how the police treated them and etc. Its scope is broader and more personal than I expected. By broader I mean, so far, I haven't read any clear policy based cause and effect arguments.

"Critics of the day denounced [state-run housing] as government overreach, with the handouts maligned as anticapitalist, socialist, and generally un-American." I think we kind of have to live with each other's differences on this fundamental worldview issue. (We are obviously correct but since they won't change lol) I guess we just have to do the best to make our ideology-driven policies to work well in reality.

"In his first year as president, in 1933, Franklin Roosevelt created the federal Housing Division, as part of the Public Works Administration. By then the shortcomings of the for-profit real estate market were evident in mass evictions and eviction riots, in homeless encampments and in countless neighborhoods like Little Sicily."

"More than 40 percent of all workingmen in Chicago were unemployed during those years (the Depression), and the city had a shortage of 150,000 affordable homes, with the demand increasing and nothing new being built. A Hooverville formed downtown, on the outskirts of Grant Park, hundreds of jerry-built structures made of cardboard, scrap, and tar paper."