What are the most notorious housing projects in America?

[PCHMalibu]

Robert Taylor homes

 

[I Really Mean It]

Out here in Boston, we had Orchard Park Projects, the home of New Edition and BBD. It was also home to the drug dealer this movie was based on:

 

[lightbearerchef]

Only thang I done concluded out of this shyt is alotta niccas need they wig split for doing senseless shyt & letting white folks brainwash them into hating eachother

 

[UberEatsDriver]

I only know about my local ones in philly: Wilson Park, Tasker Homes, and Passyunk. All single floor apartments spread out with courtyards
They aren't known for anything nationally.
I've been in Richard Allen Homes in north Philly which was a high rise. Older people may have heard of it thru rap with Ram Squad and Tommy Gunz (rip)
Went in there with my friend and his drug dealer brother to see some girl

I tend to think the crimes that occur in projects are overrated.

I use to hear people living on regular blocks with shytty houses or old buildings making it seem like the projects is where everything went down when in reality their blocks were just a hot.

Some of the projects in NYC, Boston and Philly can sometimes look nicer than the regular city blocks with old ass row homes/apartment buildings.

Just my two cents and observations.

 

[UberEatsDriver]

Out here in Boston, we had Orchard Park Projects, the home of New Edition and BBD. It was also home to the drug dealer this movie was based on:

Kind of interesting they chose to do the movie on Cincinnati.

 

[FcKuPaYmE]

Lincoln field and Scott projects back in the day. Polk and beans too

 

[Regine Hunter]

A is for Adamsville
B is for Bourne Homes

 

[Crumple]

How big was Cabrini Greene and how many ppl did it hold? I heard it stretched for miles not sure if that's true though.

At its peak, Cabrini–Green was home to 15,000 people,[3] living in mid- and high-rise apartment buildings totaling 3,607 units.

Bordered by the apex of Clybourn Avenue (North), Larrabee Street (East), Chicago Avenue (South), Halsted Street (West)
Near North Side, Chicago, Illinois, United States

Source - Cabrini–Green Homes - Wikipedia

 

[eastsideTT]

I tend to think the crimes that occur in projects are overrated.

I use to hear people living on regular blocks with shytty houses or old buildings making it seem like the projects is where everything went down when in reality their blocks were just a hot.

Some of the projects in NYC, Boston and Philly can sometimes look nicer than the regular city blocks with old ass row homes/apartment buildings.

Just my two cents and observations.

originally, thats why they were built to begin with. to provide modern, stable housing for people that were originally living in slums..rotting down buildings with no water, heat, shared bathrooms, shyt like that. when they first opened it was a huge upgrade from the places the people who lived there were moving from. back then it was an upgrade...almost like hitting a jackpot...versus it being a last resort (basically a step above the shelter) as it is today.

id probably rather live in a high rise ran by the city with staff members and a manager there on site, as neglectful as they are, over being on my own in a lot of those row homes you see in places like philly and baltimore. some of those houses are over 100 years old and look like they could blow over in the wind.

 

[SleezyBigSlim]

Murderside projects in Austin. Be from a hood called murderside brehs. (I'm not from there but respect they Crip'n )

 

[CodeBlaMeVi]

Porn n beans is what part of miami

Liberty City.

 

[Sankofa Alwayz]

DC had Barry Farms and Sursum Cordas both torn down now

DC also had Arthur Cappers and both 37th Street and Kenilworth are still hanging in there.

PG used to have the Homer Ave projects. It prolly wasn’t known much outside of the DMV but shyt was one of the most dangerous and notorious projects in the area, even most SE nikkas avoided the place like a plague if they didn’t had ppls there.

 

[The Coochie Assassin]

Someone in here mentioned East Lake Meadows....they tore that shyt down and built some nice mixed income housing where it used to be.....shyt is before my time but I moved to the DEC on Candler Road in the 00s which is right next to East Lake, ...shyt is nice over there now, I used to go to the East Lake YMCA

 

[Anerdyblackguy]

How I mention Marcy but somehow skipped Tompkins.


Yeah them Tompkins nikkas are still wild.

 

[NoMoreWhiteWoman2020]

Pruitt-Igoe In St Louis was fukking horrible. But where I am from, Roger Williams projects had shyt on lock, it’s the projects on Throw Some D’s video

Oh Bowen Homes in Atlanta was fukking huge