life in a gang
Alex Edu
HUM 106
October 16, 2013
Gang Leader for a Day Essay
The city of Chicago used to be one of the largest city containing high-rise public housings in the nation. The Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) owned 43,000 units with a population in the hundreds thousands of residents. The second wave of project housing was an attempt to construct newer and safer Urbanist-style housing projects “because Chicago can also destroy”. Chicago Housing authority reports.Since the mid-1990sthe city of Chicago had torn down about half of its public-housing high-rises citywide because of the increase of the criminality rate in the projects. In 2000, in an effort to build and strengthen communities by integrating public housing tenants into a social and economic mainstream , reduce the criminality rate, and improve the landscape of the city, the CHA planned to transform the city by demolishing, then rebuilding, or renovating25,000 units of public housing.
Thirteen years after the start of the Chicago Housing Authority’s Plan for Transformation, more than 16,000 families have been relocated into variety types of habitat, and different neighborhood in the city. The relocation has not been as effective as it sounded in the initial plans of reducing poverty, and crime rates, and integrating formers residents of housing project in the mainstream society. Where were the families relocated? What became the trends of criminality? How is the new Chicago landscape? I will explore the population relocation and their change in income, the landscape, and the rate of criminality in the most popular Chicago once projects, Cabrini Green, Taylor Homes, and Adams, Brooks, Loomis, Abbott (ABLA) projects.
Chicago Housing Authorities relocated families are living in projects in different type of housing which are; mixed income, Housing Choice Voucher, Scattered site, Traditional Public Housing.
The CHA has constructed thousands of units mixed income developments. The housing types feature
HUM 106
October 16, 2013
Gang Leader for a Day Essay
The city of Chicago used to be one of the largest city containing high-rise public housings in the nation. The Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) owned 43,000 units with a population in the hundreds thousands of residents. The second wave of project housing was an attempt to construct newer and safer Urbanist-style housing projects “because Chicago can also destroy”. Chicago Housing authority reports.Since the mid-1990sthe city of Chicago had torn down about half of its public-housing high-rises citywide because of the increase of the criminality rate in the projects. In 2000, in an effort to build and strengthen communities by integrating public housing tenants into a social and economic mainstream , reduce the criminality rate, and improve the landscape of the city, the CHA planned to transform the city by demolishing, then rebuilding, or renovating25,000 units of public housing.
Thirteen years after the start of the Chicago Housing Authority’s Plan for Transformation, more than 16,000 families have been relocated into variety types of habitat, and different neighborhood in the city. The relocation has not been as effective as it sounded in the initial plans of reducing poverty, and crime rates, and integrating formers residents of housing project in the mainstream society. Where were the families relocated? What became the trends of criminality? How is the new Chicago landscape? I will explore the population relocation and their change in income, the landscape, and the rate of criminality in the most popular Chicago once projects, Cabrini Green, Taylor Homes, and Adams, Brooks, Loomis, Abbott (ABLA) projects.
Chicago Housing Authorities relocated families are living in projects in different type of housing which are; mixed income, Housing Choice Voucher, Scattered site, Traditional Public Housing.
The CHA has constructed thousands of units mixed income developments. The housing types feature