8 Most Infamous Housing Projects

[The_Hillsta]

Last time I drove down state where the Robert Taylor projects were is all green grass now. I went to elementary school directly across the street from them and my mother use to be a teacher at the kindergarten school. A lot of her students lived in those projects

I don’t live or be out south like that anymore this was several years ago

Pops grew up in Stateway and my aunt lived in the Robert Taylor homes.

Used to visit the Chi back in the summer way after everybody moved out them shyts. Went with my cousins to copp some weed in Stateway back in 96' when there was still one tower standing. That shyt was aaaaallll bad. Never wanted to see no shyt like that again. Ain't no way folks should have been living like that, survival mode. The stories my pops used to tell me was crazy when he was a teen. Way before the crack era hit shyt was wild.

 

[lurker emeritus]

Any Midwest heads on here know about Pruitt?

should be more infamous than it is

Modern Architecture died in St. Louis, Missouri on July 15, 1972 at 3.32 pm (or thereabouts) when the infamous Pruitt Igoe scheme, or rather several of its slab blocks, were given the final coup de grâce by dynamite” or so wrote American theorist Charles Jencks in his treatise on post-modern architecture, subtitled The Language of Postmodernism. Jencks was referring to a housing project first occupied in 1954 and designed by Minoru Yamasaki, who later designed the Twin Towers in New York. What Jencks most probably didn’t know at the time, and is beginning to emerge only now, is that in the 1950s and 60s the United States Army had conducted secret testing of chemical and radioactive weapons in the Pruitt-Igoe housing estate.

talked about thoroughly in this book

 

[Consigliere]

No Pink Houses or Strawberry Mansion?

 

[JQ Legend]

Marcy more infamous in NY over Pink houses? Huh?

Yea Pink houses should be high on that list but I’m guessing this based on projects with famous people or just famous in general

QB should be at the top of the list either way tho

Mobile still has a couple (Gulf Village, Oaklawn Homes, Birdville)

The worst were Orange Grove, Happy Hills, and Roger Williams projects down here.

I’m trying to figure out how Bowen Homes got left off

Imagine relocating to Mobile and looking for an apartment and see “Happy Hills” got a spot you like

Show up and it’s

Get

Most notorious one in Vegas got tore down 20 years ago...that caused a gang war to pop off on the Westside of Vegas...it was called Gerson Park...GPK was the set

It’s blood and crips or Vegas got their own gangs?

this list is a joke without Brewster-douglass

This is Detroit?

This the only time I ever saw a housing project outside NY/NJ that looked like the projects we got

Actually the projects in Chicago look similar too but still easy to tell apart

 

[Yagirlcheatinonus]

Being a NC native I can confirm it’s serious in the Bull City

 

[Yagirlcheatinonus]

should be more infamous than it is

talked about thoroughly in this book

Damn

 

[987654321]

Techwood and Bowen Homes in ATL. I used to hear about them too.

Bowen homes was bad but not near as bad as a lot of other apartments around Atlanta. It’s mostly infamous because of the daycare exploding, the drug dealing, and the Atlanta child murders.

Techwood was one of the worst housing projects in America, it was one of the dangerous zip codes in America. It was also also the oldest project in the country.

University Homes, Capital homes, East lake meadows, Carver Homes, and a few others that were more infamous than much of the list in the OP