Las Posadas – An annual tradition
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 […]
Category Archives: Housing Projects
Reunion
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 […]
A chronicle of disappearances
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 […]
Project Cabrini Green
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 […]
Vault vid
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 […]
Chicago’s slumlords
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 […]
When renovation works
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 […]
