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Las Posadas – An annual tradition

December 18, 2014by Maya Dukmasova Leave a comment

Las Posadas is a pre-Christmas tradition in some Latin-American communities. Mary and Joseph search the neighborhood for shelter, knocking on doors until they are accepted into a home. At Chicago’s […]

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Chicago, Housing Projects, News, Photos

Reunion

June 4, 2014by Maya Dukmasova Leave a comment

On May 17, 2014 over 1,000 people gathered for the 10th Annual Hollywood Court Day barbecue in Atlanta’s Maddox park. For the past 10 years former residents of one of the city’s now-extinct […]

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Atlanta, Housing Projects, Photos

A chronicle of disappearances

March 5, 2014by Maya Dukmasova Leave a comment

The Julia C. Lathrop homes stand on Chicago’s well-to-do North Side, at the intersection of two zip codes, two aldermanic wards, and arguably four community areas, bordered on the west […]

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Chicago, Housing Projects

Project Cabrini Green

December 21, 2013by Maya Dukmasova 1 Comment

1230 N. Burling St. was a legendary building, not just because it was the last of the notorious Cabrini-Green high-rises to be demolished, but also because it was the first […]

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Art, Chicago, Housing Projects

Vault vid

November 26, 2013by Maya Dukmasova Leave a comment

This is a short film produced by the U.S. Housing Authority in the 1930s to promote the construction of publicly-funded housing projects to clear slums across America.  The film highlights […]

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History, Housing Projects, video

Chicago’s slumlords

November 13, 2013by Maya Dukmasova Leave a comment

When the nation-wide program of building public housing projects began in the New Deal era, it was seen as a solution to the slum problem.  Crowded, unsanitary districts could be […]

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Chicago, History, Housing Projects

When renovation works

November 10, 2013by Maya Dukmasova 2 Comments

In the 1990s both municipalities across the U.S., and the Department of Housing and Urban Development were overwhelmingly in favor of moving away from high-rise public housing developments and toward […]

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Architecture, Chicago, History, Housing Projects

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