SouthsideOriginally uploaded by soulfulnoyze
This is a picture of the former Ida B. Wells projects on Chicago’s Southside. The projects are being converted into $250,000.00 condos’…go figure.
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Not from Chicago but I’ve heard of those projects. That’s interesting… Seems like this is happening in all the major cities.
I just read a post on another blog talking about Harlem is not what it use to be.
If they bring in codos worth that amount of money, what then will happen to the low-income families? Where will theyhave to go, or is everyone already moving to different locations?
On the other hand, if they do build, wouldn’t that be a benefit to the southside?
I’m from S.C., so I don’t know too much about how this works, so please school me.
smart move
This is happening in Memphis a lot too. I just trip off of how the SAME land is worth so much money!!! It seems to me that some of those “transformations” in Memphis – the folks are using the same brick that they got from the housing projects they tore down. . . go figure!
This is a good thing for Chicago. The ghetto is NOT a good place to live. Hopefully when these people relocate, they will use that opportunity to better their lives. I grew up on 77th and Calumet(for the uninitiated, that’s 1 block from King Drive). I don’t think that’s the ghetto, but whenever you go from a situation where everyone is owning their land to one where everyone is renting their apartment, the community suffers. Going home is so depressing because I see so many people just struggling.
Hopefully, successful blacks that abandoned Chicago for the safety of the suburbs will move back into the city. My uncle did, and now he loves his 20min drive to work(it took him 1.5 hours when he lived in the south suburbs).
It’s definitely a good thing for the city in general. Blighted areas of the city now have new life and an economic base that it never had before….except it won’t benefit the folks that had long inhabited these areas prior to. There have been protest and such about the way the city went about the business…declaring areas historic distritcts so they can raise the property taxes in the area, kicking folks out the projects at random…but I tell folks it’s simply survival of the fittest. You spent all these years on prime real estate trickin’ off and now the man is ’bout to move you off your square. If you spent them years getting your shit together instead of trying to beat the system you would have a leg to stand on…now, you got to get the fuck on….
Richard – 77th & Calument has always been decent at best like most neighborhoods in the “CHI”…you got your certain elements and then you got folks trying to keep it together. Oh, they shut down the “Other Place” Lounge on 75th & King…now it’s a dollar store.
I remember seeing that lounge on Pimps up, Hoes down.
Richard – LOL!! That’s the one along with the famous “East of the Ryan” on 79th Street.
Ah, gentrification. What’s sad is, you can take the people out the hood, but you can’t always take the hood out of the people. For anyone that knows about the Hickory Hill area in Memphis, TN, you know what gentrification does. It just relocates the hood to a different area. Hickory Hill was a nice place to live 5-10 years ago. Now all the people that moved from the projects downtown moved into the apartments and houses in Hickory Hill. This area has one of the highest crime rates in Memphis now, and the property value has plummeted. I don’t know whether to say gentrification is a blessing or curse. The value of a neighborhood comes from the people that live there and how they value their stuff.
Superstar – you hit it on the head. The people are dispersed throughout the city with section 8 vouchers and end up poisoning areas that were viable and thriving.
Happens all the time. That ghetto spirit is just in some folks no matter where you put them.
I don’t like what’s happening to the city. Gentrification is a zero sum game: for someone to win, someone has to lose. The people who live in the projects don’t deserve to be thrown away just because they don’t have much money. That’s why I’m not shedding any tears for people who moved into these new homes and got foreclosed on. Some of them moved into what used to be the ‘hood and turned their noses up at the people who’d been there all of their lives. Now, NEITHER ONE OF THEM can afford to live there.