You can go home again

This is a remarkable story regarding a young man, who once lived in the Cabrini-Green projects and has come back to own a beautiful townhouse in a new housing complex. Good for him! However, what about the people who lost their homes and were forced to move? What's their story?

Don't get me wrong! Cabrini was a gang-infested sewer, and it's better for the neighborhood that its time has passed; but what about the people who WERE there? Where are they and how are they living now?

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The best thing to happen in that gang infested, drug infested area was to tear it down!

It was like watching cockroaches scurry about!

Where the sub humans went to is NOT the cities problem!

There are plenty of other places to live in this world, they don't have to stay in Chicago city limits causing problems and mayhem and NOT paying taxes!

Now hopefully, my taxes will go down!

I know for a fact, that the former residents of the projects NEVER did pay their fair share of taxes!

All they were was just a drain on the local economy and the local governments with their welfare cards and constant whining about assistance programs which the normal tax paying person NEVER benefitted from!

Good riddance to them all!

I remember how bad the area was when I first moved to Chicago from California in 1989. I once was a driver for the airport express and our shuttle service was not allowed to travel near that area or use nearby streets. I must admit I am not an avocate for public housing even after experiencing a brief bout of homelessness myself in my early 20's. Unfortunately, there is a segment of the populaion that will search out every avaiable resource that is subsidized or free at the expense of those truley in need (the mentally ill and disabled).
Those people who take away the precious and limited services from the truley needy are the scum of the earth.

Wonder how long it will be before the homes are burned and boarded up? Depends on who lives there.
I've seen other new townhouse public housing burned (you can see it too on the Brown Line) within a year of being occupied.