www.thecha.org An in-depth review of the historic Julia C. Lathrop Homes from the eyes of some of those closest to the development.
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@carolynwalker48505 жыл бұрын
Public housing is a stepping stone, never was meant for people to stay forever,,old rundown, and Hud, isn't worrying about fixing the place up.
@8213apice2 жыл бұрын
BM weren’t building. So we got stuck there.
@scampbell212 жыл бұрын
Do you have any idea on how much money CHA or HUD sits on while they sit there and do NOTHING to reconcile housing issues?! Shut your mouth with your bootstraps mentality.
@keeppunchin23022 жыл бұрын
Well some people do stay forever cause that is all they have so don’t judge just because you don’t understand
I see the residents' side, but how do you attract middle income residents when they are worried about crime?
@valeriepetty27255 жыл бұрын
Exactly the minute I heard this story I said somebody is about to get robbed
@valnot15 жыл бұрын
Your statement implies that blacks need to leave Chicago, in order to attract the middle class, but after the eviction of over 3/4 of the Black population. Where do the Black go. My thing is, that the U.S. has 50 states, pick two to give to the blacks community and then stay the hell away from us permanently.
@easntx4 жыл бұрын
@@valnot1 marvelous idea!
@rameythe13 жыл бұрын
Dan Chapowski it is but move to Memphis for a bit and see how long you stay
@meetstepsisalcoholicdouche6167 Жыл бұрын
@@valnot1 wtf
@missKushite13 күн бұрын
I still love and enjoy visiting my home city from time to time! I was born in the Englewood area. ❤
@deb0euf7 жыл бұрын
I grew up there at 2826 N. Clyborune Ave 1952-1960. It was great! Open space, playgrounds, Boys Club, Schneider Elementary School, Hamlin Park. Good memories.
@CaptchaNeon6 жыл бұрын
T. Von *What are your thoughts then about seeing it how it is now?*
@supahdupahplayahmacknumbah15 жыл бұрын
I wonder what you must have thought about its conditions in the 80s - 90s
@toyamarie27434 жыл бұрын
I grew up there too I can remember it was nice no graffiti.when I moved there in the 80s. I lived on Leavitt Street right next to the Boys & Girls Club
@willolson23233 жыл бұрын
Did you know a lady named sandy or Janice or Linda on leavett
@jj-gi4qt9 ай бұрын
My dad owned a bar at 2857 n Clybourn. I went to Schneider school and learned to swim, ice skate, play baseball and football at Hamlin Park. I went to the Lathrop Boys club for years and was there when they built the swimming pool across from the boys club. Played baseball behind the courtyards. I lived at 3044 n Clybourn in the big snow of 67'. Riverview right down the street. Memories 😢
@CaptchaNeon6 жыл бұрын
*Buildings only get that way when they’re neglected for years. When they talked about how some people have lived there for generations, I’m sure many people hearing that cringed. However, every single person deserves housing, no one should have to sleep out on the streets*
@forevershampoo4 жыл бұрын
yea man everyone does deserve housing... thats the truth
@user-rz9wz1bx2l4 жыл бұрын
I bet if some rich folks lived there those buildings woulda been in top notch shape. US goverment cares nothin for the poor.
@forevershampoo4 жыл бұрын
man chicago has so many problems. I really hope that city can heal, its a beautiful place, just corrupt cops, corrupt politicians, and poverty are ruining it.
@VeeTHis4 жыл бұрын
Detroit also has a ton of problems.
@partyfavors92383 жыл бұрын
100% Fats I’m from Chicago born and raised there.
@vakari85072 жыл бұрын
Im sure corrupt cops are the problem.
@genghis_connie2 жыл бұрын
It's always been corrupt. The people hold it together as best they can while our politicians look for cash grabs of all kinds.
@jay-kq5kv Жыл бұрын
It's getting worse daily
@kevinc33362 жыл бұрын
Lathrop was designated as a historic landmark due to the buildings design. Simply stating tearing it down is a meritless argument. The problem that Lathrop faced was the migration of inhabitants from Cabrini Green. Today, Lathrop looks great. The 70 million renovation is money well spent.
@tammygouletschrader87856 жыл бұрын
I've heard the buildings were being redone and we actually got a letter from the CHA to move there but myself and my husband had to be working at the time so we went back on the wait list and now live in a mixed income building.
@MrBxbreezy6 жыл бұрын
This is happening in nyc its actually brought alot of light on maintenance of buildings. Nycha (public housing) are blending residents. Alot of residents for a multitude dont occupy a apt they put middle income residents in. Values are going up.
@deneenjeffries27686 жыл бұрын
They will fix these up and put the poor and working poor out...
@user-rz9wz1bx2l4 жыл бұрын
Thats exactly what they did. Prime area for wealthy gentrifiers, near the river. US goverment dont care at all about the poor.
@Kh25159 жыл бұрын
its because of the location of lathrop home situated along the river they would like to kick the residents out and build condos for other groups of people
@sdeeley19498 жыл бұрын
+Tom V 100% correct!
@KB-zq9ck5 жыл бұрын
I agree brother, I grew up about two or three blocks from Lathrop. It started when Stewart Warner was taken down in the late 80's early 90's and became a gated community. They even lowered the clock tower we all used. After that slowly the lake front moved into the Hamlin Park area and now named Rosco Village. SMH the whole neighborhood is different, even Western Bridge is gone now. Sad.
@chadwickcloister51434 жыл бұрын
Gentrification
@NicoleKe3 жыл бұрын
Good.
@UcheIfeNwabuoku9 жыл бұрын
Renovate it but keep it affordable.
@kaikai41777 жыл бұрын
Housing Projects Exposed From poorhouse to low income housing= charging money to live in a shelter. The Housing Authority (Projects) for years conned, cheated and flat out hustled, pimped and bullied People out of their money for living in the buildings they manage. Fact (1) They're not a city or government agency. (2) Its purpose is to Manage and Maintain orphanages and shelters for the Poor people (Preservation). In the past, those building were known as Almshouses and Poorhouses, today they repackaged, relabeled and advertise these buildings under the new name “Low Income/ Public Housing”. Because many People don’t know the history of the Public Housing system, they think it’s a government agency which provides affordable “homes”, apartments to people, but that too is a lie. Today they makes millions by housing People in their orphanages and almshouses. Definitions Source: Merriam Webster Dictionary 1828 Online. Almshouse : a building in which poor people was allowed to live for free. (2) British: a privately financed home for the poor. Poorhouse : a place for poor people to live that is paid for by the taxes, donations, etc., of other people. (2) A place maintained at public expense to house needy or dependent persons Housing : shelter, lodging or dwellings provided for people Preservation: to keep (something) in its original state or in good condition This is why the apartments are poorly maintained by management. It’s time to inform yourself, your friends, families, and loved ones to help expose this corruption. Each One Reach One Each One Teach One. Peace. “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” Martin Luther King Jr. If you like this comment please share with 10 other People.
@truthatanycost33307 жыл бұрын
Kai Kai .... thanks for dropping knowledge. I've dropped knowledge & like to have gotten myself DEAD!!! What did Harriet say... "I could have saved a thousand more, if only they knew they were slaves...".
@ivyedan71834 жыл бұрын
@@kaikai4177 that's truth!
@dablackkingofeverything90513 жыл бұрын
No just tear em down and build new single family houses
@bongoscongasantiquecashreg45444 жыл бұрын
Oh boy it looks kind of like NYCHA they need to help this place & all housing projects!
@nuckie_miamii2 жыл бұрын
They units are bigger too.. Then alot of projects I seen .
@BigSi-xw6wv Жыл бұрын
2:30. Is the discoloration from roach infestation? 😯
@beezlebub78473 жыл бұрын
I lived here 93-96 in the taller building on Leavitt. We used to go to Hamlin Park to swim and get chased back to Clybourn. Diversey River Bowl Arcade was the spot
@Jayeskool3182 жыл бұрын
how tall are those buildings?
@beezlebub78472 жыл бұрын
@@Jayeskool318 It’s a mixture of Row houses and 4 story buildings, but these ain’t projects they’re low income housing. This is the north side, here in Chicago ALL our projects were on the south and west side’s. I said WERE because the city demolished them.
@Cool412Breeze2 жыл бұрын
@@beezlebub7847 govt built low income housing is the definition of projects, being on the north side has nothing to do with it. but whatever u wanna tell yourself.
@773x602 жыл бұрын
@@beezlebub7847 there were several projects on the Northside and still are.
@kartiersupremewhite3303 жыл бұрын
She said some real at the end if you don’t live in the projects,most folks won’t go to the projects.
@SeventhCereal3 жыл бұрын
"wouldn't be cost efficient to fix" , yet I see hordes of the people loafing around doing nothing all day. This repair is not rocket science, just needs work. They refuse to even help themselves.
@williamhoward12682 жыл бұрын
My boy worked at the bowling alley across the street back in the late 90s
@AngelHoll7 ай бұрын
Good old day's huh
@Mr1021853 жыл бұрын
I’m all for change. These neighborhoods can’t stay ghetto forever. We need more nice neighborhoods on the south and west sides of the city. Black people need to get a education and get good jobs. It can happen. Trust in God to show you the way. There is no excuse for hoods to exist.
@h0ttlikefiyah8513 жыл бұрын
they should rebuild these so that people have a place to live
@acajudi1006 жыл бұрын
They will break in and steal your stuff. You cannot mix the incomes.
@ohmeowzer16 жыл бұрын
Very interesting thank you
@CG-sx3no4 жыл бұрын
If you house mixed income....where do all the displaced low income go ?
@NicoleKe3 жыл бұрын
Away. They go away.
@static67873 жыл бұрын
Gary Indiana
@arilynn71082 жыл бұрын
They get free housing in the suburbs.
@mrpersianality63632 жыл бұрын
Mixed income is a buzzword for raising rents
@Cool412Breeze2 жыл бұрын
if your on government assistance does it matter?
@mrpersianality63632 жыл бұрын
@@Cool412Breeze yes. Your payments go up too.
@AUTISTICLYCAN6 жыл бұрын
Mixed income is a nice concept but how many people making $120,000 a year will want to share a building with someone on food stamps and welfare. How many people making $120,000 a year want to step over crack heads to get into their apartment building. How many people making $120,000 want to live in an apartment building without, a pool, a door man, a community room, an exercise room and all the other amenities. When you put people without money in the same building with people who have money the have not's target the haves. The have's move away and you are back in the ghetto again. Now if you have people earning $40,000 a year living with people making $120,000 a year or more that might work better. If I were making $45,000 a year I'd love to live in an upscale building located near a Starbucks and a Whole Foods. Even if you have dirt poor folk living in an upscale community and if Whole Foods takes SNAP EDT or whatever. Trying to live on welfare and snap is hard enough at Safeway. You really want to try to feed a family for $4.00 a meal brought from Trader Joe's , Fresh Market, Whole Foods and their upscale like! Throwing a bunch of dirt poor folk to live among the upper middle class can work but rarely does. People who have $25,000 to $40,000 incomes might work out but they are not the people most in need of housing. I doubt a homeless person has access to $25,000 a year.
@earthandwind8206 жыл бұрын
Canis Lupus it’s sandwiched between a very affluent neighborhood on one-side and a heavily gentrifying neighborhood on the other. It’s a huge housing complex divided by a major street. As far as I’ve heard, they’re making one-side(nicer access to the river) the luxury apartments and the other side (divided the big street) the low-income. I don’t believe they’re even having them in the same building or the same side. A lot of people moving in and doing the gentrifying are from out-of-town. All the developers have to do is rebrand the area and they’re set. We have entire neighborhoods here in Chicago being rebranded with generic names so as to erase the previous association.
@DJPoundPuppy6 жыл бұрын
Are you saying low-income residents are crack heads?
@AUTISTICLYCAN Жыл бұрын
@Jose Zamora I've lived well most of my life and I never hunted poor people to ply them with dope and alcohol. I will admit to keeping myself to myself. I don't open my window to help strangers even in my better off neighborhood. As a friend of mine said last night it's much easier being friends with someone who like you does NOT NEED anything. When you make good money you are not a slave to your needs because all needs are possible to achieve with a modest level of work or planning. I respect alleys dumpsters and the like because anything I need to do I can afford to do it RIGHT without hurting others! The one thing about having money is I can go where I please. If I want to visit the YMCA pool I can and will no matter what you think. Let me tell you something about having money. If I were to walk into the YMCA craving a dip in the pool all I have to do is make a donation to the YMCA. Trust me a $10,000 donation gets me a golden invite to the YMCA pool, basketball courts, crafts activities and any other amenities that YMCA has on offer when I visit. Not that I would want to swim in just any YMCA pool. Some YMCA's are located in posh communities and it is their rich patrons that allow them offer free or reduced cost access to poor people. In many respects you are biting the hand that feeds you when you suggest rich folk aren't welcome at the YMCA. If rich people did not donate generously to the YMCA it would close up and the poor people it served would be sleeping under cardboard and eating from dumpsters. Fact is most rich people seldom use the facilities or services they donate money, materials or services to maintain. Most so called free clinics for the poor are sustained in part or in whole by the donations made by the rich or better off. Oh sure we get tax breaks and such but most rich people feel they have a duty to donate to worthy causes. There is a saying my mom taught me early in life. "TO THOSE WHOM MUCH IS GIVEN MUCH IS EXPECTED!" I have a duty to help others by volunteering and donating to those causes that help the poor in ways I understand. You are an angry socialist which is your right but I don't hate you because I can afford not to hate. You can't!
@joystratton684 ай бұрын
And they are mixing them in with the mentally ill, who go off their bmeds and blast music all night!! Many people have got unalived
@kiyahmcfadden12719 жыл бұрын
That's where I live and I love it you don't. know what going on so I believe that if u come over here and c what we do you will see we are a big family
@GBL20017 жыл бұрын
People think ALL projects are the same...many of them were occupied with (lower income) working class families with two parents and/or extended family members, with people working as well...not all projects were like Cabrini Green, Rockwell and Robert Taylor, but many people, particularly outside of Chicago (and Illinois in general) don't know that...
@Townie71776 жыл бұрын
Thats what theyre doing in boston.tearing down the projects.some are being rebuiltbut some are being built to be mixed
@holland9199 Жыл бұрын
These buildings need to be gutted from top to bottom and rebuilt by reputable and trusted developers that will not repatriate funds for their own personal gain line NYC Chicago and other cities 🤔
@Kingshorty26534 жыл бұрын
Latin Kings hood
@Chitown-xc5yo Жыл бұрын
yur
@eduardoguerrero2791 Жыл бұрын
Clyborn & Hoyne was Insane ♤ Deuces
@craigsully96613 жыл бұрын
If you want it to last and be respected you have to turn it into high end condos no public housing people who live n housing don't respect it cuz they don't own it when u own and can invest in your property it lasts forever
@SeventhCereal3 жыл бұрын
Even dogs take better care of their kennels then some of these people. You don't have to be an owner to respect property and capital.. Should be thankful you aren't out on the streets. What is wrong with your brain?
@615BlackBarbie3 жыл бұрын
Listen, people are paying rent and work orders. Fix the building with that money!
@ItsTreen5 жыл бұрын
Best Wishes!💞
@pollyannalight63137 жыл бұрын
Wow have they made any repairs since the 1930's! That's decades of neglect! Fix that shit and not for the rich!
@lauradonaldson32692 жыл бұрын
March 20,2016!!!!!
@chairmanofrussia11 жыл бұрын
how about they renovate the building and not kick out poor people. I mean what the fuck. How insulting "a 40-acre monument to 1930s housing policy". If you don't want an old building from the 30's standing there, then renovate the damn building. It's not that hard!
@dmmspac11 жыл бұрын
No comments?
@OGimperial972 жыл бұрын
Bring back the project Deuces.
@Chitown-xc5yo Жыл бұрын
the kings stay treating them
@eduardoguerrero2791 Жыл бұрын
@@Chitown-xc5yo what kings they extinct 😅
@NicoleKe3 жыл бұрын
Tear it down. Rebuild mixed community.
@keeppunchin23022 жыл бұрын
Keep Public housing public!!!
@alexanderdrywall30433 жыл бұрын
Gentrification! Do it!
@eileeneclark90116 жыл бұрын
7/19/18.....Need to tear it down----haul off the debris----rebuild but have professional construction & slight mix with public housing for VETTED lower income housing mixed with middle class....with varying rents & SOMEBODY IN CHARGE to prevent crime/ criminal influence. Put pro real estate rental firm in charge & KEEP IT NICE & CRIME/DRUG FREE!
@johnkurttate89784 жыл бұрын
Get a job.. Quit relying on the government..
@user-rz9wz1bx2l4 жыл бұрын
WTF a minimum wage job? Why dont u STFU
@nonic4vic6004 жыл бұрын
Sometimes that cant happen
@SeventhCereal3 жыл бұрын
@@user-rz9wz1bx2l Even if the job pays nothing it is still better than doing drugs, multiplying like rabbits, or getting arrested/shot by the police. Consider the wage a bonus.
@chrisglover74275 жыл бұрын
lol...so mixed income will show low or no income what middle class looks like and then they will desire it..and go out and work hard to get it..oh i think i get it now....gtf outta here...kickdoor express here we come..
@TeeTee-20165 жыл бұрын
It should be mandatory that they work and pay at least 75% of their own rent. That way they will take better care of the property.
@user-rz9wz1bx2l4 жыл бұрын
@@TeeTee-2016 all on a minimum wage job yeh!
@TeeTee-20164 жыл бұрын
@@user-rz9wz1bx2l it's not about how much you make but, how well you manage it.
@SeventhCereal3 жыл бұрын
Mixed income = fresh blood for parasites to feed on. That is all that means.
@Cool412Breeze2 жыл бұрын
@@user-rz9wz1bx2l learn a trade while youre working at popeyes.
@Bakkwoodz3411 жыл бұрын
I guess not
@deneenjeffries27687 жыл бұрын
What was the outcome ? These places could be renovated... don't kick out the decent working class.
@earthandwind8206 жыл бұрын
Deneen Jeffries It’s sandwiched in between a heavily affluent, monotheistic community on one-side and a heavily gentrifying neighborhood on the other, where many houses where low-income and working class families lived were/continue to be teared down to make room for affluent yuppies moving in from out-of-town. The buildings have been sitting like this for years and now they have finally started to renovate. Luxury housing on one-side and low-income on the other (it’s a large housing complex and a major street divides both sides). Many people believe the low-income housing is simply to receive tax cuts not because they truly care. Also, a lot of the low-income kids(minorities) may be transferred over to attend a public school on the affluent other side. Many of the parents of that school don’t want those kids there; I know because my nephew used to go to that school. It’s a well-funded, predominately upper (white) class school. These are the same people who have “hate has no home here” signs on their windows (in reference to this past election). I’ll let you do the judging 😑
@user-rz9wz1bx2l4 жыл бұрын
@@earthandwind820 its gentrifiers-then rich white yuppies. The poor-kick out. They dont care where u go, even if ur homeless. That Chicago.
@SuperJasondennis Жыл бұрын
PROJECT LATIN KING..... BIG OLE K
@Chitown-xc5yo Жыл бұрын
u saying kingK or king love?
@user-we3pn1ok8q9 жыл бұрын
I hate living here ;-;
@pennyhardawaytherealg.o.a.71537 жыл бұрын
u never leave in the project
@Howard0075 жыл бұрын
My last name is Lathrop !
@rachaelnichter552511 ай бұрын
it began to erode...wen black people moved in
@kiyahmcfadden12719 жыл бұрын
That's where I live and I love it you don't. know what going on so I believe that if u come over here and c what we do you will see we are a big family