1986 SPECIAL REPORT: Chicago's Projects | Real Stories

[@SaNab7]

None of that was done by accident. They never had any intentions of fixing anything up, that money was laundered through the program.

[@1college100]

Facts!

[@skibbityb1]

In societies that care about it’s people, public housing is prioritized as shelter to help people. Like Red Vienna in Austria. The US being a racist and cruel country, they turned it into a way to punish people they viewed as deserving nothing but pain.

[@CerseiLannister999]

The way wyte America has BEEN running business, since the start!

[@deagle2yadome696]

@@skibbityb1the US isn’t a racist country, you aren’t even from here, stop speaking on things you know nothing about.

[@luckylemon6277]

@@skibbityb1nothing about race all about political corruption.

[@antionette97]

I was around 2 during this time... My cousin (father side) lived in the projects with his mom and siblings in the 90s (her husband was abusive and she had no other place to go). They didn't have smoke alarms in their apartment and a fire broke out. His mom burned to death making sure her children got out safely. It was tragic. They got millions from her death but that doesn't make anything better especially when they had a loving and kind mother (who worked and went to school) and took excellent care of her children and home. She was a beautiful woman inside and out. I will never forget her.

[@blacksilverchair3315]

Let me guess, they lost all those millions and are broke today.

[@PomegranatesWeather]

💔🙏🏿😔

[@toistory7412]

🕊️🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

[@chanelwest3641]

🙏🏽🙏🏽🫶🏽

[@HisGraceIsSufficient555]

@@blacksilverchair3315from what she commented that was the question that you felt compelled to ask? That’s very telling…

[@stephanielaurenbounds4958]

As my late Mom used to say “That money ended up going into pockets.”

[@aquanettaspeight3819]

CORRECT 😢

[@stephanielaurenbounds4958]

@@aquanettaspeight3819 SAME BLASTED thing happens in Jackson, Mississippi which is close to where I live - “money going into pockets”!!

[@aquanettaspeight3819]

@stephanielaurenbounds4958 And you are correct, same goes for Chicago, Philadelphia, NEW YORK, all over and the kicker is we as senior citizens won't get paid 🤔 🙄 😳

[@dustywagon298]

I be thinking the same. Like when you see construction on the expressways, like I-57 just south of I-94. Why is it taking so long? Who is auditing the billing and expenses on equipment, supplies and labor? I bet the people who are supposed to are paid to keep a blind eye.

[@NaturallyGifted77]

Yes

[@KJ-qg9pc]

She’s an amazing reporter, these new reporters need to take notes.

[@blackbettyboo5039]

She did a damn good job exposing CHA’s negligence.

[@TrinaBinaBaby]

Pam Zekman is THEE TRUTH!!

[@SadeWatkins]

Literally Amazing !!!

[@lauriwhite5997]

People get praised for doing their job nowadays

[@KJ-qg9pc]

@@lauriwhite5997 I’m not trying to tell individuals how they do there job.. But I feel like due to us living in a more sensitive era.. reporters just do the bare minimum, put on a smile and get paid then go home. (I’m not old school or anything, I’m more of the new age but I can see the differences between back then and now both positives and negatives)

[@Queenofbeautiful]

This is terribly sad. I bet they got away with this & no one was arrested, punished or fired because of the type people living in the communities. This still happens today 2023 & then they blame the people for not being able to help themselves when they are literally trying to pull themselves up by their bootstraps!

[@alexisreyna558]

This exactly what’s going to happen with the migrants from Central America

[@impoppypanda]

DominicanMami1 Exactly! Disgraceful & disgusting how one dominant group will denounce other groups for being stupid (for not being educated, & at fault for not knowing any better), lazy (for not working harder to get themselves out of their situation), etc. It’s very tragic & shameful for this to happen in any capable &/or accomplished society.

[@kinte1870]

Government housing will always be Commie block housing. How much do you think the government is going to spend housing poor able-bodied people, using other people's money. You get the bare minimum when the government is your daddy.

[@patchys8569]

​@@impoppypanda😢🎉👍

[@FaithAndLoveFaithAndLove]

Right.... It's sad none of them are punished while people are staying in unlivable places. The higher-ups are pocketing the money and know how to get away with it..... $225,000 for a garden nahhh write me that Bank check expeditiously

[@MayaONeil23]

This was us as children and our mothers. This is exactly why we went to school and progressed ourselves. Our mother's situation showed us we couldn't depend on our fathers, the state, nor the government. We had to do it ourselves if we wanted better. Here in the year 2023 BW are the most educated women in America and growing entrepreneurs. This put fire under our wings.

[@CarolineEccleston-q9c]

Blaming it all on black men is so convenient, isn't it? Individuals make CHOICES to have unprotected sex and they often do, repeatedly. Lack of self-control, of discipline is a personal and also a familial problem. Black women often have degrees, which is not synonymous with REAL education. Colleges have become diploma mills for everyone; there are plenty of profoundly stupid people of all ethnicities with worthless degrees. The root of the problem is moral bankruptcy, resulting in fatherless homes, generational poverty, violence, crime and despair. "air beneath our wings" is a sentimental statement that comes from a puerile movie starring two over-rated white actresses: Bette Midler and Barbara Hershey. You should have listened to the late Malcom X: the worst enemy of the black American is the white liberal. Old Malcolm got some things right.

[@HER_ROOTS]

🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾

[@Inspiredteacher1]

That's exactly what our open enemy wanted black women to think about their black man, that he is "useless". I'm not "that guy". Back in the early to mid 1990s, I began to learn entrepreneurship and even if I have the fortitude to be one. I wanted to build a co-op owned positive teen club and school organization, so I also began researching the most prominent black issues and radical solutions to those issues. I also am a student of human psychology and am well aware of how it has been very successfully weaponized against our community, leading to the destruction of the black family and defeatism in most blacks. I unfortunately developed rheumatoid along my journey, and it has greatly crippled me. But it is so important for us to regain our freedom, that I am willing to share my blueprint w/ any sincere black man or black men, so they can save black youth from a life of bondage.

[@MayaONeil23]

@@Inspiredteacher1 I know that there are BM who stood up against what society was doing to the community. The problem is that it was way too few. When BM become accomplished, the last thing they are thinking about is building their own community. They marry out. When men of other communities are given less opportunity, they band together and build their own business and feed their own people. The BM has failed this community and left BW holding the bag. Anyway, you are a rare breed of BM.

[@Inspiredteacher1]

@@MayaONeil23 true. Post integration, our people literally lost their minds. I pray more black men relearn what true manhood is and begin to build toward their peoples' freedom. Because we're not free and it can't be asked for or begged for.

[@vodoumyers]

My mom was just a baby born in Chicago when this aired & the things she's told me about living in 80's-90's Chicago is undeniable

[@numberone6266]

yepp i grew up on the southside of chicago 73 rd marshield 80 90s came to mississippi in 1995 lord have mercy ❤

[@daryl399]

@@numberone6266wow!

[@Faizasmith-pj4dz]

How old are you?. If your mum was born in 1986

[@vodoumyers]

@@Faizasmith-pj4dz I'm 23 which would mean I was born in 2000. My mom was born in March 1985 in Chicago. Meaning she had me when she was only 15 after the rest of my family had already moved to from Chicago to Minnesota. Although I wasn't born in Chicago, I still have family who lives there & I have visited to see what it's really like plenty of times.

[@Humanitarian4ever]

@@vodoumyersdamn same month and year as my mum. what day was she born

[@sefa9132]

It's so disgusting how the government treats communities especially regarding housing. I I wonder what it looks like now and if it's the same problems.

[@killroyjohnson1256]

It really is! They need to treat them exactly how they treat the rest of us and tell them to quit their pissing and moaning, get a friggin job and stop looking for handouts. Problem solved 🤷

[@antoinetteboswell2948]

how the government treat the black communities only

[@killroyjohnson1256]

@antoinetteboswell2948 how exactly are they supposed to "treat black people " and what exactly are they doing that makes it so bad for " black people "? Please elaborate.

[@youngbenfranksinatra]

Karen ​@@killroyjohnson1256

[@NaturallyGifted77]

Probably worse! Or none existing

[@Preppyslayskz]

This is investigative reporting. Something that is now DEAD.

[@Piggy-Oink-Oink]

Thew news doesn;t LIKE to use the word "Poor" anymore or show depressing images..so we get Happy People doing Happy Things on TV ..ain;t that something.

[@timpritts1499]

​@@Piggy-Oink-OinkEXACTLY 💯

[@HIWWPI_2024]

The materials might’ve been “paid for” but that money honestly didn’t go on renovations that they said needed to be done, instead it went into their own pockets. SMH 🤦🏾‍♀️. Sad part about this is that this is still happening today.

[@brokenchainsofsatan2817]

That was over priced intentionally it’s 2023 and carpet installation isn’t 3,000 this sad along with your excuse

[@quanbrooklynkid7776]

^^^^

[@k.anderson5039]

The houses boarded up one story connected houses they show in the beginning were new at the time! Looking at the design they were probably built in early 80s. This is confusing- they actually spent money on building the houses then never finished the interior. I’m curious if anyone eventually moved in them or they got torn after falling into disrepair

[@Iwbrit91]

Smh. That definitely was done intentionally. They never had plans on renovating these properties smh. Slap to those families faces.

[@crystalbrame7886]

Nope Gentrified It And MadeThe Area High End Real Estate And Moved The Poor Out Part Of The Plan 😐

[@skip031890]

​@@crystalbrame7886 Good.

[@Lucki6]

@@skip031890you must’ve got robbed by us huh😂😂don’t be mad you can push us out our communities all y’all want but it’s just gonna make a newer generation way worse then it was before🤷🏾‍♂️if you ask me more robberies are gonna happen to y’all so get ready

[@v.a.993]

Wayback Archives, where were you in 2007 when I was doing my master's thesis research on family public housing in Chicago and other cities? I NEEDED these videos. Thank you and keep them coming!

[@royharper2003]

what did your bthesis conclude about free public housing?

[@v.a.993]

@@royharper2003 many things...but in short that as social attitudes became laxer starting in the mid -1960s, along with the persistence of systemic racism, they set family public housing on the collision course that doomed it and the people who lived in it. In order for family public housing to be a viable resource that serves the interest of the many who need it, the education system, healthcare systems etc. need to be functioning well, as there is an intersectional dynamic between them. The emphasis of family public housing as a "stepping-stone" to a better life rather than an only way of life needs to return to ensure that families are being held accountable for achieving better outcomes for themselves so as to become self-sufficient after so many years of being able to live in public housing. Lastly, Public Housing Authorities (PHAs) spending be better tracked and monitored to avoid waste/abuse/fraud, and that PHAs administrators be held more accountable for ensuring that tenant families become self-sufficient and ready for private market housing within a specified number of years.

[@deagle2yadome696]

@@royharper2003its not free doofus

[@royharper2003]

@@deagle2yadome696 it is if they use their welfare money to pay for it.

[@SpiceyKy]

​@@deagle2yadome696 😂

[@Candy173828]

CHA has a history of being slumlords.

[@donrome3835]

That Kanter mf was grimy, you can’t really trust contractors anymore, Philly contractors is just old hood dudes with “businesses” who show up when they feel like

[@PomegranatesWeather]

Every state that has a high percentage of AA this is a common practice

[@neekyboo77]

I grew up an hour from chicago but had family there. CHA was synonymous with poverty and despair.

[@aaronhuffman4852]

Voting democrat is what the problem is

[@morganmadison366]

Never depend on the government.

[@mariel.4566]

The government depends on us for taxes. Who is scamming who?

[@anaangel5434]

I understand that. However, as tax payers, we should be able to receive assistance if need be. There are other reasons too. It becomes a problem, in more ways than one, when someone is nearly solely dependent on the government for long term. It's complicated to explain...

[@anaangel5434]

@@mariel.4566 Yes, they tax everything! Income, sales, property, and on and on. Then all these companies want this extra fee and that fee.

[@anaangel5434]

@rafaeldejesus8199 You have a good point. They can pull the rug out from under you at any time.

[@richradtylr4]

​@@anaangel5434 Inflation is a hidden tax,/debt. You have to pay down on it.

[@sipsandsights]

40 years later same problem.

[@olikiahill260]

Bravo perfectly say nailed it

[@velmarose6559]

Factd

[@donrome3835]

17:30 I feel the gentleman’s pain, why should we pay taxes to a government that doesn’t care to build homes only cared to put that money in their pockets

[@Stophatingjitt]

What taxes do these people pay lol our taxes go to them. Food stamps, unemployment & section 8

[@rudybrooks3722]

​@@StophatingjittStop trolling Caveman its the government your people created that's causing all these problems. 🤔

[@MH-zy6tc]

@@StophatingjittIf a person works than they’re not on unemployment. I’m tired of paying your SSI! You sound dumb

[@vvisionary]

​@Stophatingjitt dude, you pay taxes on every single thing you do. Everybody, for the most part in this country pays some sort of tax

[@chi-townlilbaby8085]

​@@Stophatingjittwhat taxes you pay, you're a kid dafuq!!

[@kinte1870]

Perfect example as to why you don't want to be dependent on the government.

[@nunya6346]

Yesssssss!!!!!!!! Make your own money and pay your own rent

[@teetot5276]

Damn right!!!!

[@PBLKW]

​​@@nunya6346you are one paycheck of being homeless yourself needed public assistance.

[@nunya6346]

@@PBLKW I earn well over one hundred thousand a year i work VERY HARD! I didn’t go to college I’m a blue collar worker. So there’s no excuse not to pay your own rent!! People that depend on the government are modern day slaves! Heaven forbid I lose my income but if I do I’d rather live off the land and sleep in my car than ask for a hand out.. and when did I need public assistance? Do you know me? 🤦🏽‍♀️

[@brandy5395]

@@nunya6346I don’t mean to intrude but may I ask what you do for a living? I need ideas. I make 60k as a ea and the cost of living in Houston has gone up and I can’t sustain it.

[@blackbettyboo5039]

History repeats itself. Same thing still going on in 2023

[@olikiahill260]

Facts

[@sanaaniz]

who's fault is that ? mfs do not wanna go to school or work...white folks are tired of yall begging.. it's over with and that slavery BS ain't working anymore get a freaking job cause once the government cuts them lil programs off it's a wrap ....

[@divineselfentity]

This the comment Eye was looking for.

[@timpritts1499]

That's because greedy corrupt Democrats still run Chicago!

[@whispermcgaughy7251]

I grew up in the projects,not in Chicago but this issue was and still is a nationwide issue.. Offices full of CROOKS!!

[@timpritts1499]

Exactly 💯

[@ChillVanille]

The cha should be ashamed of themselves. The money wasted is sickening.

[@donrome3835]

Very sickening.. I’m not from Chicago but this shit is messed up

[@britt1805]

It wasn't wasted, it was pocketed due to greed

[@BOSSTECHKIYAA]

@@britt1805And that right there is a waste to the people smh

[@cristyluv1205]

Poor ppl are not going to put up much of a fuss. You take what they give (or don’t give you), and you figure it out along the way. I’d love to have a conversation today, with an “architect “ who worked on these properties back then.

[@timpritts1499]

Corrupt Democrats still running Chicago and lining their pockets with money!

[@getbusydrizzy5296]

ALL BLACK PEOPLE HAVE TO DO IS COME TOGETHER. AINT NOTHING FROM THE SKY OR GROUND COMING TO SAVE YOU ----SMH

[@ericthered1140]

yeah good luck wit that boss....lol

[@jarenfromvenus]

They keep us divided to make sure we don’t.

[@jarenfromvenus]

@@ericthered1140you white huh?

[@getbusydrizzy5296]

@jarenfromvenus why would you ask my color and my picture is right next to my name. You can't be blind and messaging

[@getbusydrizzy5296]

@ericthered1140 well they will keep looking pitiful to the entire world. AND NOBODY CARES

[@symonephillips7841]

This has nothing to do with them “being on govt assistance” don’t blame the residents. The housing authority was supposed to see things through and improve … Blame them for laundering money

[@timpritts1499]

EXACTLY 💯

[@julessb]

Wow back when journalist actually reported on important stuff

[@TeeceABeast]

I have lived in Chicago all my life and the racial divide is still prevalent today. What’s worse is the dissolution of the housing projects made our city a living hell with gang collisions and low poverty stricken neighborhoods and lack of access to good education and jobs. Although I never lived in these conditions The black community is at its lowest today because of the infrastructure created by greedy racist people who thought of us nothing more than animals and human waste😢

[@MsArLee1105]

So even though we have more representation in places of power - often leaders in these same communities look like us are often where blk people are suffering the most - but to you the issue is greedy racist people? People in Chicago today is having their hard tax dollars taken from them & being given to foreigners. It's not a racist face doing that. It's the blk mayor & the other blk leaders in that city putting foreigners over their own taxpaying people and its been happening for years. Look at Baltimore! The boogeyman is not always who you think it is. We need to start making good decisions at a young age, get a good education, not have kids out of wedlock & stop relying on the government. The government seems to destroy everything they touch. Bad policies chasing away businesses. These things can be changed tomorrow but unfortunately these leaders like to play political games that further themselves only. It stopped being about the people a long time ago!

[@TeeceABeast]

@@MsArLee1105 honey I’m speaking of how the entire infrastructure was created check out the Chicago housing project documentary I agree that what’s going on now is because of the current leadership but the ground work for confusion was laid by how the entire city was setup with black migration to the north. What we are seeing today is just the offspring of a crooked and narrow system that was set in place to encourage failure of black families and communities. Check it out and tell me what you think. I think the documentary was Chicago Cabrini greens

[@3namechangezalowdevry90day7]

So, the KKK rode up to Chicago and stole the copper wires and pipes out of those buildings?

[@Vanillacoffee5]

⁠​⁠@@MsArLee1105and those black leaders are typically just following the white man.. How do you think they got higher into politics. Pleasing Certain white leaders.. most white leaders are followers too. It still stems from the the origins of greed/money, judging(thinking certain ppl better, not treating ppl the way you want to be treated), ego/power …

[@CerseiLannister999]

Yea. Chicago was deemed one of top 5 most racilay divided cities.

[@mahoganylove5757]

Grandma moved us out of Chicago to Wisconsin around this time. I use to get beatup everyday walking to school...shoe prints on the back of my coat 5days a week. Lived on second floor of projects across from Bears stadium. Elementary Middle and High school went to school and even went outside for recess all at the sametime. One of the most horrible experiences of my life. 😢

[@23shaquanda]

I've lived in Wisconsin all my life but my parent hall from Illinois. How did things change for you once you moved

[@RaiderGannon12]

I was born in Chicago, moved out in February of 1986 to Phoenix when I was 6 years old, forgot what cold felt like, coldest I have experienced in Phoenix was 29 degrees. I have some memories of Chicago, I always like to find old Chicago videos, closes thing to a time machine.

[@isidoraveronica]

Damn hope you’re doing well.

[@caramelking-zf8wu]

Make a Video About This ! (1 Million Views)

[@KaylaHumphries-us8jq]

Sorry Chicago is beyond ghetto Very sad the music is uttterly disturbing

[@DCombz]

"Could result in loss of property...loss of life." The pause and the order in which he said that says EVERYTHING.

[@DeloWillis]

Ikr smh😢

[@CeeJayy720]

“225,000 for a vegetable garden” the 80’s were so corrupt 😂

[@janaskibo871]

Yep. Everyone strung out on cocaine and greed.

[@Tamar-sz8ox]

Financial records were written into ledgers / papers filed

[@0f-the-land]

Situations like that occur 'till this day. City officials will choose unknown/unqualified companies to perform construction/electrical/plumbing. No responsible over-sight by the city. Very disgraceful!

[@timpritts1499]

The city is still run by corrupt Democrats lining their pockets with money!

[@xoxojo]

This is a perfect example of systemic racism.

[@symonephillips7841]

Very much so! And seeing all these comments saying some “get a job and pay your rent” black residents being blamed for obvious money laundering

[@larryjames3437]

Do you not know what redlining is? @@CirceandLillith

[@michaelbradley7621]

Systemic racism != to a contractor trying to fill his pockets. If I was these people, I'd be happy just being given a free place to sleep at at night. Alot of people never get that luxury.

[@NathanBullock-w9n]

It's the politicians being racist not The people

[@MCognettaable]

Uhhh tons of poor white ppl grow up exactly like this too…this is about the ppl with the money exploiting the poor…conflating it with race makes it so we never hold the proper ppl accountable

[@beverlyjuniel7561]

God bless us folks who came up in the projects.our mama's made ways out of no way.The ghettos ain't no joke baby ,real people's real struggles,Still We Rise thru all we went thru,Rest mama Juniel and thank you for being strong for the family

[@janaskibo871]

They did this in Houston also. Its absolutely disgusting 😢the amount of fires, sickness, and injuries that happened because its easier to rip off the most vulnerable should not be allowed. Chicago was in the grips of organized crime. Excellent report. The journalists of today should take a clue.

[@ms.ravenwood]

Nothing has changed and NEVER will.

[@PrettyUnique90]

8million dollars was a LOT OF MONEY BACK THAN. How in the world did they run out of money and than on top of that pick a cheap contractor. Money went into someone pockets. And it wasn’t documented. So sad. Hope these families are doing better now. ❤

[@Zamp-ju4me]

I'm sure that contractor had "friends" within Chicago's city government.

[@DeloWillis]

Ikr smh

[@mikelast3146]

Let’s call it what it was. One pocket the money and two because they were black.

[@muzarayahyeshuahyasharal1361]

Call a spade a spade

[@killroyjohnson1256]

I wish I were black. I'd love for some free housing, food stamps and all utilities paid for. I think if someone would do me that much of a solid, I'd get off my ass and fix up my free living quarters myself. But I'm white , so they don't give me a damn thing and I have to fix my own problems.

[@antoinetteboswell2948]

exactly so true because if they were white folks this would have been gotten done. being black folks they take their time about any and everything

[@yvonnegrant3736]

Not just black other races as well

[@blacksilverchair3315]

Black Americans doing each other dirty as usual. 😂

[@feleciachance8987]

To see people just wanting the basic essentials. Heartbreaking!

[@carmenalexis4787]

They didn’t want basic essentials bad enough to go get a job though. 🤭

[@ItsmeCR-g8j]

@@carmenalexis4787Did the report say they weren’t working?

[@carmenalexis4787]

@@ItsmeCR-g8j no but it didn’t have to. Just like it didn’t have to say they’re single mothers either, but they are. I come from that community, I know how things operate there.

[@Axel-yz2zr]

​@@carmenalexis4787you weren't even born when the report was made so stop saying sh*t

[@carmenalexis4787]

@@Axel-yz2zr you don’t know how old I am. And I wouldn’t have to had been born to know. Nothing has changed even in 2023

[@kayjaykayjay1869]

They simply didn’t give AF!!! Period 🤷‍♀️

[@characterchange6793]

These bastards got chances over and over for not completing work. The ppl that they were providing the homes for have been , are treated, and will be treated worse than the scammers.

[@yonna1855]

It’s a shame that they not only wasted/stole all this money but that families and people didn’t have adequate housing. It’s also crazy how they spoke with mainly African American commissioners and architects that didn’t press the issue about making sure these buildings were safe and prepared for tenants to live in them but they were also used as the forefront for them to receive the backlash for issues that existed long before. That system was designed for low income families to fail and who better to be responsible to place the blame on then other African American people. This is sad and disgusting.

[@teetimewisdom90]

This was great investigative journalism that should’ve lead to many arrests but more than likely nothing happened!

[@lakeshaheard5249]

I was 3 years old and we lived on the West side we struggled to my mom had to cut the stove on for heat many nights on food stamps without food going to food banks to get food it was rough in Chicago in the 80s an 90s I'll never allow my kids to go threw Wat I had to go threw I live for them they are my main priority we over came a lot from living in Chicago I'm a survivor of Chicago 80s an 90s times shit was real real

[@timpritts1499]

LEARN TO SPELL CORRECTLY! AND STOP DEPENEDING ON HANDOUTS FROM TAXPAYERS!

[@royultyzfamilyvalues1207]

This video shows exactly how everyone was more worried about their "Bottom Lines" than the people they claimed to serve... They never get held accountable. They literally played with those families' lives to save money....

[@theblackmoth1111]

Wicked world of greed smh

[@thechi2848]

Now they have millions for illegal immigrants.

[@jserpa88100]

Yeah cuz they know that the immigrants are gonna work and they're gonna get something out them the people of Chicago just want handouts and not to work

[@tommesiacooper1258]

Billions for Ukraine🙄

[@thechi2848]

@@tommesiacooper1258 Now billions for illegal immigrants.

[@tiff2422]

They also trying to get regular tax paying citizens to house immigrants here in Chicago. It’s a slap in the face to all the folks that’s already struggling and homeless that the government or city cares nothing about but has money for homeless immigrants. The city emails me often about housing immigrants and I always send a email right back that says KISS MY ASS!!!!! Immigrants not my problem it’s government and mayor.

[@jasminemarquita7589]

I was looking for this comment

[@fiftyfadesofgrey]

Thanks for posting these, i always try finding old pbs footage etc of chicago housing projects. Rewatched so many. Chicagoan myself and like learning as much about the culture and politics inside projects.

[@johnlewis195]

I was 13 in 86 and I always stayed in Chicago for the SUMMER... My Grand Ma lived at The Ida B Wells Projects 13th Floor

[@Preciouscovington]

Those apartments were on Troost Ave which is in KCMO. What people fail to realize is Chicago is the Hyde Park area, Troost was added as a street after the illegal changes were made. Lsnd has more information. This changed affected a lot of people, places and things. Tom was the crooked landlord of a lot of the properties and when an audit was completed it was discovered HUD illegally caused a massive amount of damages and confiscated properties illegally. Microphish has more information. There are problems still with HUD and the properties, some properties were put under VA home loans, which caused major housing problems for a lot of people who owned their homes legally. The Cotton Club use to be down the street from the cleaners on Troost, but the street name wasn’t named Troost back then. I use to go in there and point people out. There was a big shootout there when I was there. These cities, buildings and houses are messed up. People opened housing organizations and that didn’t help. Go read about Gary, Indiana where this happened because the same individuals are involved. #national

[@cheekscheeks5840]

💯💯💯💯💯💯💯

[@ShakeDownStreet0714]

I used to work off Troost.

[@moneyblue8466]

Fr

[@Preciouscovington]

@@moneyblue8466 yep

[@anaangel5434]

😔 people deserve to exist better than this...💖

[@killroyjohnson1256]

I'll agree with you on this, as soon as we all get treated equally. The government takes from me and gives to them and nobody is boo hooing for me. Piss on these freeloading parasites. Maybe if they'd get off their asses and pull their own weight, they wouldn't have to live like this. 🤷

[@antoinetteboswell2948]

you want to know why because they are black folks that's why if they were white folks things would have been gotten done

[@survivingthetimes]

Yes they do. That's why I left Chicago at the ripe old age of 16 (right around the time that this originally aired) and never looked back. My drunk, pill-popping parents stayed on Larrabee St. in Cabrini, and they probably tore the building down around them for all I know. I got a job at Christopher's Lounge over on Western Av., lived on the streets and saved enough money to move south of Houston, Tx where I was a legal adult at 17, and the rest is history. My last kiddo at home is 11, and her picture day at school is tomorrow so I have to get up early to get her looking good. Yes, everyone deserves better, but the onus is on the individual to believe that they deserve better and do something about it. People have the choice to live in misery, or claw their way out. The only thing that I can say with any degree of certainty is that the government is NOT going to save you. You have to save yourself.

[@kellynorvell5714]

OMG....you have an incredible story of faith and survival. Me and my family lived in the New York City Housing Projects for 28.5 years filled with drugs, hate, jealousy, violence, mental illness EXTREME POVERTY and DYSFUNCTIONS but years of prayer and hard work (HAND of GOD) took us out of there. God bless you and your family. @@survivingthetimes

[@DingusMcRingus]

Yeah, they totally should've done something about their situation and stopped relying on the government... but no, let's just mooch off other people.

[@andriadaisy]

I am very confused on how the interest was costing $6,000/day. Was the loan for more than 1 property unfinished? Some of that money had to be lining someone's pockets.

[@andriadaisy]

I just did the math and $6,000/day in 1986 would be $16,807.99/day in 2023. I really hope the journalist was talking about total construction loans and not just for that singular property.

[@duane_313]

@@andriadaisyI believe they meant properties all together

[@bb3ll07]

People in Chicago today should watch this 😮 this should motivate people to avoid having to live in ghettos…..

[@bysvgs]

that same media failed to show indigenous americans in chicago living in beautiful areas of south side, it’s many places in chicago that have suburbs with indigenous peoples living there that fake news media will never show… they only want to highlight someone that looks like you struggling but fail to acknowledge how people that look like you founded the city chicago and the people the indigenous american people that look like you have been living in that city for so long in beautiful stone buildings. my man is from chicago an he said growing up he never seen caucasians in his city and when they did start to move in, the indigenous people would not let caucasians into they areas at all

[@lancecarter4709]

We don’t have to watch anything ..that’s the old Chicago it’s more homes on the south side than New York

[@shalontehernandez6752]

I don't how old your man is for him to say he never saw white people in the city cause whites were living in the city before the blacks migrated to Chicago during the great migration. White people moved out of certain parts of the city where blacks were moving in. Which was called White Flight. Therefore Chicago has always been a Segregated city and still is. Alot of them moved to the Suburbs but whites have always been in the city maybe not his neighborhood or mines but many never left the city they just got away from us and moved to other areas where we couldn't afford they did that on purpose. Chicago is also known for a lot of black people didn't leave their neighborhoods to see what the rest of the city has to offer. Black people are starting to venture out in other parts of the city to enjoy foods, entertainment and night life, They are also buying homes in other areas of the city as well.@@bysvgs If he never saw white people in the city

[@kellynorvell5714]

You are 100% spot on (seriously).

[@sanaaniz]

@@lancecarter4709 yall mfs to need to watch IT lmaoo, especially the welfare folks cause this is what tf it's going look like after the democrats are done with yall :) hands out are over if you arent working or getting a degree good luck to you mind you all the stores are living because yall steal

[@pamelaworley8851]

We have a similar situation here in Louisville Ky. A high rise senior and housing for disabled adults is horrible. Mold has taken over apartments, floors are buckled due to flooding. Restrooms have unworking toilets tubs and showers. The building is managed by the local housing authority. People who have no other place to go are living in substandard housing. I personally think its because of who is benefitting from low income housing. Just because a person is poor doesnt give those in charge of housing a right to mistreat people. I lived in public housing for 12 years. The years that I lived there they had two renovations. The first one was done quickly. Soon there was flooding, bad window condensation due to poorly installed windows. Mold became a serious issue. The second renovation came and they took buildings that were one bedroom apartments and tore down walls and created three bedroom town houses. In Louisville if you were a tennant in good standing you stayed if not they moved you to another project in the city. I ended up moving because I started working full time and couldnt pay the huge rent increase. People need to be aware of shoddy workmanship. Contractors bid on these projects and due to who these homes are going to some of them dont care.

[@pierrethemenace7495]

Corruption then Corruption now Crruption forever

[@gerrimiller3491]

We grew up in public housing and had issues with appliances, heat and lack of all kind but we prayed daily and God helped us. The management was lazy because they had no care for people until you keep pushing the staff to get help fixing stuff.

[@Bigpitbull509]

Compared to other wealthy countries the United States has the worst living conditions for the lower class. The projects in Canada aren’t half as bad.

[@samwitwicky2515]

None of them ppl ended up in jail shit is insane they drove them ppl crazy throughout the years

[@secretpeace-wp6xg]

I'm 2 minutes in and I live in NYC. I can see this happening with NYCHA one of the last few housing authorities in the United States. Many of the buildings are going under some program known as RAD-PACT which to my understanding and correct me if I'm wrong it puts the buildings under private management and converts the apartments from Section 9 to Section 8. Nycha is doing this in order to open up funding to maintain the apartments due to years of neglect. Another approach they're doing is to tear the buildings down and this is one of the only few times in nycha's history that they've gone down this road the first building was the prospect plaza houses in brooklyn due to how bad the conditions were in there. It took a long time to rebuild it into something new. Now they're fighting with the Fulton houses and the Chelsea-Elliot Houses in Manhattan.

[@urmamasmamasmama]

Section 8 is no better. Slumlords love abusing that program smh

[@customcalendars4u2]

Fast forward 2023 Chicago and black people are still getting the shaft but this was an enjoyable piece a blast from the past when news anchors like Walter Jacobson, Chuck Goudie, Bill Curtis, Pam Zekman, Dorothy Tucker, Linda Yu, Cheryl Burton, Ron Magers, Mark Giangreco, Diann Burns, Leah Hope, Kathy Brock, Jim Rose, Warner Saunders & Allison Payne "Kept It Real"..... Now news reporters are straight off the pole or just plain Sugary!

[@Yourunkbob]

The 80's were amazing because they could teach anyone to do the news. Nowadays only miss america and miss universe contestants can read the news.

[@rbsmith3365]

Disgusting! They should’ve been arrested for rip off. That time 1986, I was living in Texas and my home was 5 years old and, it includes a fireplace and a microwave too.

[@onnivision6464]

The more things change, the more things stay the same 😢

[@enekervis]

Wow. Real journalism!

[@jamieboyd6591]

So said😢 thank God my grandma and her husband got a house that they still live in to this day

[@kch3769]

Real reporting

[@HellaReckless]

The fact admin cost more than most other parts of the projects tells you a lot.

[@PIPpalaceFX]

I wonder if they’ll ever show stories About ALL the good kids surviving the hood who DONT live in the projects one day …..

[@yvonnegrant3736]

Perhaps some of those who survived the hood and housing projects will come forward😊

[@shantelane2553]

@@yvonnegrant3736 Jay Z the billionaire has spoken often. You may know him.

[@litacaproni8583]

What does that have to do with this video?

[@DarkroomMedia007]

​@@litacaproni8583they just like to blast out in the media sad SOB stories about for black people as propaganda as if there's no black children or family doing real good for decades and making good decisions for that family. Mainly staying together and having babies in wedlock. They love to show destitute and Dusty baby mamas and crack addict With Tears in their eyes. Continue to put it out there too gullible black people, white supremacy has crushed you with no way out, lay down and stay down"

[@PIPpalaceFX]

Because I made it that….. problem?@@litacaproni8583

[@anthonydavid5121]

How little has changed in 37 years. Sounds exactly like reports on the poor, fair housing, ect today in 2023 in cities around the country. Always abeen a mess, always somebody at the top to get rich.

[@Hwood773]

These are the "free luxuries" and "handouts" that all these people against social programs all speak about smh they all speak as if being poor and relying on govt assistance is such a great thing! Nobody wants to be poor and would rather have a nice home n sufficient food they can provide for themselves and when you cant these are usually whats offered/given/affordable.

[@DemsAndRinosRuinedAmerica]

Just depends on where you live. In the inner city it’s gonna look like this. But in the suburbs, I have a lot of friends on section 8 and welfare living good. Poppin baby after baby out.

[@Hwood773]

@@DemsAndRinosRuinedAmerica my point is that we cant cast an umbrella or make everyone who needs it suffer for the misuse of a select few, I hear people constantly say we should completely abolish these programs and its usually because they witness a few abusing it, if that's the case then we should get rid of alcohol because some drink to much! We should get rid of cars because some people drive recklessly! We should get rid of guns because some people commit crimes w them! You see what I am eluding to here?

[@DemsAndRinosRuinedAmerica]

@@Hwood773 of course we shouldn’t get rid of social programs and that’s not what I’m advocating for. What I’m referring to is your point where you said that nobody wants to be poor… there are so many people satisfied with just existing off of government assistance. Like the single baby mamas with numerous kids who keep popping out babies because they know that people like us are going to subsidize them. I believe we should have restrictions but not get rid of the programs altogether.

[@Hwood773]

@@DemsAndRinosRuinedAmerica I was not saying that you specifically feel that way I said I hear ALOT of people saying we should get rid of these programs but I agree there are many people out there who have normalized living off govt assistance and they'd rather live under those conditions instead of putting in some effort and elevating themselves

[@The1readme]

To sum it all up they were putting the money in thier pockets

[@DJaySplitSecond]

That dude was a sleeze bag, he pocketed that money

[@stephanielaurenbounds4958]

“A terrible waste” - that’s putting it MILDLY as well as being an understatement.

[@yahya4370]

Sounds a lot like NYC NYCHA. Truth is there is money in keeping Black Americans poor and in ghettos.

[@teewright7338]

Brick 🧱 thieves didn’t cause the building to collapse… the 2 or more years of termites did. Whomever was responsible for handling that money should still be in jail today. SMH

[@dinkyb2000]

They waited us to suffer and leave the city are now those areas are some of the best in the city

[@pumpkin03]

Nah, those areas still look just as bad 😂

[@__berichh5375]

Sick, sad and inhumane. Great reporting, but I assume it’s still going on and no accountability

[@Queenmebonnie]

And i bet they were all still expected to pay rent

[@networkdude1332]

See. The government should have just directly hired And have their own qualified builders on the payroll. A big part of the problem for these projects. Failing is their insistence of going through the private marketplace and hiring these subcontractors.

[@mistergoodcitizen9914]

Government sucks at everything they do.

[@shantellamar8154]

So they evicted families to "renovate" kept most of the money so more families had no where to go......nasty work, shame on them.

[@osooyabun2701]

Dam this is one of the reasons theirs so many abandoned buiding in chicago i always wondered.

[@DallyWinston69]

Blacks were so much better off then. Had mire emphasis on family. More respectful and educated. Its wild how the left brought them down.

[@cheekscheeks5840]

This is terrible I remembered all this growing up in Chicago. That’s why the city is in the shape it’s on . Lazy people wicked and evil 😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮

[@VauveAnais]

It's sad how history repeats itself, yes, in 2024.

[@expansion_elevation]

CHANGE COMES FROM THE HEART..NOT THE POCKETS... I HATE GREEDY PEOPLE

[@sarak4418]

They lying , they put that money in there pockets and ran ! How you gone pay someone to fix the place and nothing got done, now we know that’s a lie!

[@royharper2003]

crooked contractors take money and don't do the work

[@blackbettyboo5039]

This is by design👀

[@k.anderson5039]

I work for the government & they LOVE wasting money. Over half of the cities governments employees were FT working from home during COVID for over 2 years. Now they want people to come office 3 days a week which is not even necessary. If staff remained WFH 5 days a week the city could save 10s of millions by eliminating some of the physical building spaces. It’s expensive to operate & maintain building especially when they aren’t needed. There are so many expenses with building- small things like toilet paper, expensive things like insurance, repairs, security/janitorial staff. They have recently been pouring millions to make changes & repair my building. It’s infuriating to see housing is SO expensive where I live & when people need help- the number 1 response a place to live. Not to mention the city owns much of the land & building so they could save more by putting affordable housing on land they already own

[@donnabultema2602]

Slum contractors that are still in business which them people have to suffer, he should be sued, and all should have went after him for pain and suffering, so sad people had to live this way, I'm so thankful I own my own home, it's not much and I'd took people in ...

[@lynearking3991]

All they did was still money 😢

[@pammyla66]

All we are is debt slaves they create the debt and force us to pay for it except the money doesn’t actually go towards what it’s supposed to it goes into the pockets of those in charge

[@BusyBodyB]

This is when reporting was great… look how much attention they brought to this issue

[@donnavorce8856]

There are some inside jobs at work here. But investigations will cost millions as well. Some of those old buildings were beautiful. Humanity can't seem to get much done right. These sorts of programs are going on today as well I fear. Bottom line is wherever there's a pool of government money, there's scammers ready to dive in.

[@laaythebrooklynway0718]

“that’s 225. thousand dollars …. for a vegetable garden” 😂😂

[@lashandachildress4313]

And these problems have not changed 💯 💔

[@Neosoul_prima]

Literally neighborhoods and buildings I lived in throughout the 90s and early 2000s! Then they always say the southside is so dangerous! Like you left us with nothing

[@pammyla66]

That’s the most expensive vegetable garden I have ever heard of

[@charlesodum217]

I’m currently running for President of Senior Central Advisory Council living in a renovating building Albany Terrace,making sure history doesn’t repeat it self.

[@olin8262]

They knew what the hell they was doing in the first place.

[@Joi004]

Now it's crystal clear to me why the building I was born in was torn down. This is the mindset that gave birth to the demise of a great city. Shame on all of you and your generations.

[@yumikumi2]

I wonder why podcasters and content creators don’t make videos and podcasts about the history city building corruption? Guess it’s not trending enough.

[@Sensiblehumanwitj]

Still happens today, homes no heating no nothing

[@lindashelby2246]

See this shows in October 2023 our struggle still is the same last to receive anything and they think we are not tired. Our ancestors lived through last last we tired altogether . Brandon what in fruck you talking about. 🤬😡🤬😡 and nobody went to jail for fraud stealing funds because the negligence was done to blacks.

[@Beauty_and_the_Beats]

Smh. I'm mad 37 years later