thompsonx -> RE: On the All Lives Matter Issue (10/1/2015 12:32:48 PM)
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ORIGINAL: BamaD The link you gave said 3 or 4 times that is was segregated. "Missouri public housing remained racially segregated until 1956." Which was when p.i. opened. I have lived in military housing that was about that bad. In the 70's I lived in base housing built for Pattons troops, in WWI. You never lived in an 11 story building that did not have proper elevator service. It wasn't that the AC didn't work, they didn't have any. And the place was infested with bats, thousands of them which housing maintainance refused to do anything about until the commander was promised that every bat that got into quarters and was killed would end up on his desk. The residents of p.i. did not have a commanding officer with such power. Remember the article said that maintainence was not done. It also states that the place was overrun with crime, did you not read KD's post, he lives in that area. You obviously did not read the cite because it is pretty clear that the issues that caused p.i. to fail were not crime. Originally, the city planned two partitions: Captain W. O. Pruitt Homes for the black residents, and William L. Igoe Apartments for whites.[11] Missouri public housing remained racially segregated until 1956.[10] Living conditions in Pruitt–Igoe began to decline soon after its completion in 1956.[3]
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