- starts by juxtaposing the halcyon days of yore in public housing to the demolition and "urban renewal" of the past.
- close to downtown, gold coast, public transit
- people fighting against the demolition / idea of displacement
- another anti-slum origin story -- public housing as the alternative
- integrated for a while -- whites could leave
- Cabrini Green as an extension of segregation
- urban decline / maintenance stopped / rents rose but incomes dropped
- relocation as a fiction -- people meeting again at the the site of cabrini-green.
- 50 market - 30 cabrini - 20 low income
- gentrification blend -- residents are worried.
- very strict social policing, drugtests and so on. this meant