The Chicago Experiment
(From the article, Mixing It Up, by Evan George, Downtown LA News)
What Happened When Mixed-Income Housing Replaced the Projects
Imagine if the L.A. Housing Authority, working with developers, demolished every single low-income housing project in Downtown Los Angeles to replace them with mid-rise lofts for both high-income young professionals and Skid Row residents alike. That's essentially what Chicago has done.
Nearly a decade ago, Chicago officials elected to abolish the de facto segregation of rich and poor that subsidized housing projects had created in its metro area. One particularly infamous complex, Cabrini-Green, housed more than 2,000 of the city's poorest residents. Massive low-rent tenements like it had, over decades, become entrenched havens for crime and legacies of poverty.
Read the full article about how Downtown LA Projects are putting low-income and affluent residents in the same building:
Mixing It Up.
What Happened When Mixed-Income Housing Replaced the Projects
Imagine if the L.A. Housing Authority, working with developers, demolished every single low-income housing project in Downtown Los Angeles to replace them with mid-rise lofts for both high-income young professionals and Skid Row residents alike. That's essentially what Chicago has done.
Nearly a decade ago, Chicago officials elected to abolish the de facto segregation of rich and poor that subsidized housing projects had created in its metro area. One particularly infamous complex, Cabrini-Green, housed more than 2,000 of the city's poorest residents. Massive low-rent tenements like it had, over decades, become entrenched havens for crime and legacies of poverty.
Read the full article about how Downtown LA Projects are putting low-income and affluent residents in the same building:
Mixing It Up.
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