I used to work for a guy who did exterior home maintenance for homes. Windows, Soffit, Roofing, Siding, you name it. Was working outside of Chicago in the suburbs and was working on a guys home who had a housing project built right behind his home.

He was a very joyful guy happy about life and he just seemed so excited about all the work we were doing to his home as he was getting it all paid for by an insurance check from storm damage, but every time he talked about the neighborhood he turned depressed. Said this was a neighborhood where before you could leave your stuff outside and not worry about it, where you could leave your front door unlocked at night and not worry, where the local elementary school was always thriving and playing outside.

He told me after they built the projects, there was always a cop parked at the park in front of his home because there needed to be as they responded to the neighborhood so often. He said we shouldnt even leave so much as our scaffolding out without being locked up in some way as he thought we might be at risk of losing it. Every day we worked there we had to use our Pump Jack style scaffolding and raise it all the way to the top then climb down by ladder so as not to give them access to it to take it. He told us many times he is glad his kids have already moved out, because the locals still there with kids were making friends with people in other nearby neighborhoods and listing their kids under that address due just so the kids could go to different schools for a safer and better education.

This all happened because when they had the housing projects in Chicago, they were deemed to dangerous (like, shooting on balconies from building to building at rival gang members dangerous). Police would not respond because too dangerous. So they just tore them down, and redistributed the low income housing to suburbs all across Chicagoland and caused lots of situations like I described.

Here is more information on one of those now demolished Chicago projects. I am talking housing projects so bad, they removed the seats off of benches so people would not linger and hang out by them as it was too much a danger to life. This specific one I mention, because I was long time friends with a guy who lived in Chicago who was into nightlife and bars, and he said in this area there was a bridge to cross that separated the downtown nightlife area from the NW area where a lot of people lived. He said if it was after dark, and you were white, you wouldnt even make it across the bridge. This is the people they moved into suburban neighborhoods, neighborhoods people moved to in order to get as far away as possible from these projects.

I used to work for a guy who did exterior home maintenance for homes. Windows, Soffit, Roofing, Siding, you name it. Was working outside of Chicago in the suburbs and was working on a guys home who had a housing project built right behind his home.

He was a very joyful guy happy about life and he just seemed so excited about all the work we were doing to his home as he was getting it all paid for by an insurance check from storm damage, but every time he talked about the neighborhood he turned depressed. Said this was a neighborhood where before you could leave your stuff outside and not worry about it, where you could leave your front door unlocked at night and not worry, where the local elementary school was always thriving and playing outside.

He told me after they built the projects, there was always a cop parked at the park in front of his home because there needed to be as they responded to the neighborhood so often. He said we shouldnt even leave so much as our scaffolding out without being locked up in some way as he thought we might be at risk of losing it. Every day we worked there we had to use our Pump Jack style scaffolding and raise it all the way to the top then climb down by ladder so as not to give them access to it to take it. He told us many times he is glad his kids have already moved out, because the locals still there with kids were making friends with people in other nearby neighborhoods and listing their kids under that address due just so the kids could go to different schools for a safer and better education.

This all happened because when they had the housing projects in Chicago, they were deemed to dangerous (like, shooting on balconies from building to building at rival gang members dangerous). Police would not respond because too dangerous. So they just tore them down, and redistributed the low income housing to suburbs all across Chicagoland and caused lots of situations like I described.

Here is more information on one of those now demolished Chicago projects. This specific one I mention, because I was long time friends with a guy who lived in Chicago who was into nightlife and bars, and he said in this area there was a bridge to cross that separated the downtown nightlife area from the NW area where a lot of people lived. He said if it was after dark, and you were white, you wouldnt even make it across the bridge. This is the people they moved into suburban neighborhoods, neighborhoods people moved to in order to get as far away as possible from these projects.