Lathrop Homes: Views From the Inside

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  • Опубліковано 13 лис 2012
  • www.thecha.org An in-depth review of the historic Julia C. Lathrop Homes from the eyes of some of those closest to the development.

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  • @carolynwalker4850
    @carolynwalker4850 5 років тому +54

    Public housing is a stepping stone, never was meant for people to stay forever,,old rundown, and Hud, isn't worrying about fixing the place up.

    • @8213apice
      @8213apice 2 роки тому +2

      BM weren’t building. So we got stuck there.

    • @scampbell21
      @scampbell21 2 роки тому

      Do you have any idea on how much money CHA or HUD sits on while they sit there and do NOTHING to reconcile housing issues?! Shut your mouth with your bootstraps mentality.

    • @keeppunchin2302
      @keeppunchin2302 Рік тому +6

      Well some people do stay forever cause that is all they have so don’t judge just because you don’t understand

  • @devoradamaris
    @devoradamaris 2 роки тому +10

    Childhood memories..Apt 511
    Thank you...sharing🕊🌐🕊

  • @deb0euf
    @deb0euf 7 років тому +33

    I grew up there at 2826 N. Clyborune Ave 1952-1960. It was great! Open space, playgrounds, Boys Club, Schneider Elementary School, Hamlin Park. Good memories.

    • @CaptchaNeon
      @CaptchaNeon 6 років тому +3

      T. Von *What are your thoughts then about seeing it how it is now?*

    • @supahdupahplayahmacknumbah1
      @supahdupahplayahmacknumbah1 5 років тому

      I wonder what you must have thought about its conditions in the 80s - 90s

    • @toyamarie2743
      @toyamarie2743 4 роки тому

      I grew up there too I can remember it was nice no graffiti.when I moved there in the 80s. I lived on Leavitt Street right next to the Boys & Girls Club

    • @willolson2323
      @willolson2323 3 роки тому

      Did you know a lady named sandy or Janice or Linda on leavett

    • @jj-gi4qt
      @jj-gi4qt 8 місяців тому

      My dad owned a bar at 2857 n Clybourn. I went to Schneider school and learned to swim, ice skate, play baseball and football at Hamlin Park. I went to the Lathrop Boys club for years and was there when they built the swimming pool across from the boys club. Played baseball behind the courtyards. I lived at 3044 n Clybourn in the big snow of 67'. Riverview right down the street. Memories 😢

  • @adamhorowitz8677
    @adamhorowitz8677 8 років тому +59

    I see the residents' side, but how do you attract middle income residents when they are worried about crime?

    • @valeriepetty2725
      @valeriepetty2725 5 років тому +8

      Exactly the minute I heard this story I said somebody is about to get robbed

    • @valnot1
      @valnot1 5 років тому +5

      Your statement implies that blacks need to leave Chicago, in order to attract the middle class, but after the eviction of over 3/4 of the Black population. Where do the Black go. My thing is, that the U.S. has 50 states, pick two to give to the blacks community and then stay the hell away from us permanently.

    • @easntx
      @easntx 4 роки тому +2

      @@valnot1 marvelous idea!

    • @rameythe1
      @rameythe1 3 роки тому +1

      Dan Chapowski it is but move to Memphis for a bit and see how long you stay

    • @meetstepsisalcoholicdouche6167
      @meetstepsisalcoholicdouche6167 Рік тому

      ​@@valnot1 wtf

  • @CaptchaNeon
    @CaptchaNeon 6 років тому +30

    *Buildings only get that way when they’re neglected for years. When they talked about how some people have lived there for generations, I’m sure many people hearing that cringed. However, every single person deserves housing, no one should have to sleep out on the streets*

    • @forevershampoo
      @forevershampoo 4 роки тому +3

      yea man everyone does deserve housing... thats the truth

    • @user-rz9wz1bx2l
      @user-rz9wz1bx2l 4 роки тому +2

      I bet if some rich folks lived there those buildings woulda been in top notch shape. US goverment cares nothin for the poor.

  • @tammygouletschrader8785
    @tammygouletschrader8785 6 років тому +7

    I've heard the buildings were being redone and we actually got a letter from the CHA to move there but myself and my husband had to be working at the time so we went back on the wait list and now live in a mixed income building.

  • @forevershampoo
    @forevershampoo 4 роки тому +35

    man chicago has so many problems. I really hope that city can heal, its a beautiful place, just corrupt cops, corrupt politicians, and poverty are ruining it.

    • @VeeTHis
      @VeeTHis 3 роки тому

      Detroit also has a ton of problems.

    • @partyfavors9238
      @partyfavors9238 3 роки тому

      100% Fats I’m from Chicago born and raised there.

    • @vakari8507
      @vakari8507 2 роки тому

      Im sure corrupt cops are the problem.

    • @genghis_connie
      @genghis_connie 2 роки тому

      It's always been corrupt. The people hold it together as best they can while our politicians look for cash grabs of all kinds.

    • @jay-kq5kv
      @jay-kq5kv Рік тому

      It's getting worse daily

  • @kevinc3336
    @kevinc3336 Рік тому +3

    Lathrop was designated as a historic landmark due to the buildings design. Simply stating tearing it down is a meritless argument. The problem that Lathrop faced was the migration of inhabitants from Cabrini Green. Today, Lathrop looks great. The 70 million renovation is money well spent.

  • @MrBxbreezy
    @MrBxbreezy 5 років тому +3

    This is happening in nyc its actually brought alot of light on maintenance of buildings. Nycha (public housing) are blending residents. Alot of residents for a multitude dont occupy a apt they put middle income residents in. Values are going up.

  • @ohmeowzer1
    @ohmeowzer1 6 років тому +3

    Very interesting thank you

  • @Kh2515
    @Kh2515 9 років тому +50

    its because of the location of lathrop home situated along the river they would like to kick the residents out and build condos for other groups of people

    • @sdeeley1949
      @sdeeley1949 8 років тому +5

      +Tom V 100% correct!

    • @KB-zq9ck
      @KB-zq9ck 5 років тому +1

      I agree brother, I grew up about two or three blocks from Lathrop. It started when Stewart Warner was taken down in the late 80's early 90's and became a gated community. They even lowered the clock tower we all used. After that slowly the lake front moved into the Hamlin Park area and now named Rosco Village. SMH the whole neighborhood is different, even Western Bridge is gone now. Sad.

    • @chadwickcloister5143
      @chadwickcloister5143 4 роки тому +5

      Gentrification

    • @NicoleKe
      @NicoleKe 3 роки тому +4

      Good.

  • @deneenjeffries2768
    @deneenjeffries2768 6 років тому +23

    They will fix these up and put the poor and working poor out...

    • @user-rz9wz1bx2l
      @user-rz9wz1bx2l 4 роки тому +4

      Thats exactly what they did. Prime area for wealthy gentrifiers, near the river. US goverment dont care at all about the poor.

  • @bongoscongasantiquecashreg4544
    @bongoscongasantiquecashreg4544 4 роки тому +3

    Oh boy it looks kind of like NYCHA they need to help this place & all housing projects!

  • @beezlebub7847
    @beezlebub7847 2 роки тому +2

    I lived here 93-96 in the taller building on Leavitt. We used to go to Hamlin Park to swim and get chased back to Clybourn. Diversey River Bowl Arcade was the spot

    • @Jayeskool318
      @Jayeskool318 2 роки тому

      how tall are those buildings?

    • @beezlebub7847
      @beezlebub7847 2 роки тому

      @@Jayeskool318 It’s a mixture of Row houses and 4 story buildings, but these ain’t projects they’re low income housing. This is the north side, here in Chicago ALL our projects were on the south and west side’s. I said WERE because the city demolished them.

    • @Cool412Breeze
      @Cool412Breeze 2 роки тому +1

      @@beezlebub7847 govt built low income housing is the definition of projects, being on the north side has nothing to do with it. but whatever u wanna tell yourself.

    • @user-hx4le1vn2c
      @user-hx4le1vn2c 2 роки тому

      @@beezlebub7847 there were several projects on the Northside and still are.

  • @nuckie_miamii
    @nuckie_miamii 2 роки тому +2

    They units are bigger too.. Then alot of projects I seen .

  • @williamhoward1268
    @williamhoward1268 2 роки тому +1

    My boy worked at the bowling alley across the street back in the late 90s

    • @AngelHoll
      @AngelHoll 6 місяців тому

      Good old day's huh

  • @UcheIfeNwabuoku
    @UcheIfeNwabuoku 9 років тому +39

    Renovate it but keep it affordable.

    • @kaikai4177
      @kaikai4177 7 років тому +7

      Housing Projects Exposed
      From poorhouse to low income housing= charging money to live in a shelter.
      The Housing Authority (Projects) for years conned, cheated and flat out hustled, pimped and bullied People out of their money for living in the buildings they manage. Fact (1) They're not a city or government agency. (2) Its purpose is to Manage and Maintain orphanages and shelters for the Poor people (Preservation). In the past, those building were known as Almshouses and Poorhouses, today they repackaged, relabeled and advertise these buildings under the new name “Low Income/ Public Housing”. Because many People don’t know the history of the Public Housing system, they think it’s a government agency which provides affordable “homes”, apartments to people, but that too is a lie. Today they makes millions by housing People in their orphanages and almshouses.
      Definitions Source: Merriam Webster Dictionary 1828 Online. Almshouse : a building in which poor people was allowed to live for free. (2) British: a privately financed home for the poor. Poorhouse : a place for poor people to live that is paid for by the taxes, donations, etc., of other people. (2) A place maintained at public expense to house needy or dependent persons Housing : shelter, lodging or dwellings provided for people Preservation: to keep (something) in its original state or in good condition This is why the apartments are poorly maintained by management. It’s time to inform yourself, your friends, families, and loved ones to help expose this corruption. Each One Reach One Each One Teach One. Peace.
      “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” Martin Luther King Jr.
      If you like this comment please share with 10 other People.

    • @truthatanycost3330
      @truthatanycost3330 6 років тому +3

      Kai Kai .... thanks for dropping knowledge. I've dropped knowledge & like to have gotten myself DEAD!!! What did Harriet say... "I could have saved a thousand more, if only they knew they were slaves...".

    • @ivyedan7183
      @ivyedan7183 4 роки тому

      @@kaikai4177 that's truth!

    • @dablackkingofeverything9051
      @dablackkingofeverything9051 3 роки тому +2

      No just tear em down and build new single family houses

  • @kartiersupremewhite330
    @kartiersupremewhite330 3 роки тому +1

    She said some real at the end if you don’t live in the projects,most folks won’t go to the projects.

  • @BigSi-xw6wv
    @BigSi-xw6wv Рік тому +2

    2:30. Is the discoloration from roach infestation? 😯

  • @h0ttlikefiyah851
    @h0ttlikefiyah851 3 роки тому +3

    they should rebuild these so that people have a place to live

  • @ItsTreen
    @ItsTreen 5 років тому +2

    Best Wishes!💞

  • @CG-sx3no
    @CG-sx3no 3 роки тому +3

    If you house mixed income....where do all the displaced low income go ?

    • @NicoleKe
      @NicoleKe 3 роки тому

      Away. They go away.

    • @static6787
      @static6787 3 роки тому

      Gary Indiana

    • @arilynn7108
      @arilynn7108 2 роки тому

      They get free housing in the suburbs.

  • @kiyahmcfadden1271
    @kiyahmcfadden1271 9 років тому +6

    That's where I live and I love it you don't. know what going on so I believe that if u come over here and c what we do you will see we are a big family

    • @GBL2001
      @GBL2001 7 років тому +4

      People think ALL projects are the same...many of them were occupied with (lower income) working class families with two parents and/or extended family members, with people working as well...not all projects were like Cabrini Green, Rockwell and Robert Taylor, but many people, particularly outside of Chicago (and Illinois in general) don't know that...

  • @lauradonaldson3269
    @lauradonaldson3269 2 роки тому

    March 20,2016!!!!!

  • @Townie7177
    @Townie7177 6 років тому +3

    Thats what theyre doing in boston.tearing down the projects.some are being rebuiltbut some are being built to be mixed

  • @acajudi100
    @acajudi100 6 років тому +9

    They will break in and steal your stuff. You cannot mix the incomes.

  • @mrpersianality6363
    @mrpersianality6363 2 роки тому +2

    Mixed income is a buzzword for raising rents

    • @Cool412Breeze
      @Cool412Breeze 2 роки тому

      if your on government assistance does it matter?

    • @mrpersianality6363
      @mrpersianality6363 2 роки тому +2

      @@Cool412Breeze yes. Your payments go up too.

  • @SeventhCereal
    @SeventhCereal 3 роки тому +5

    "wouldn't be cost efficient to fix" , yet I see hordes of the people loafing around doing nothing all day. This repair is not rocket science, just needs work. They refuse to even help themselves.

  • @Kingshorty2653
    @Kingshorty2653 4 роки тому +7

    Latin Kings hood

  • @dmmspac
    @dmmspac 11 років тому +2

    No comments?

  • @AUTISTICLYCAN
    @AUTISTICLYCAN 6 років тому +10

    Mixed income is a nice concept but how many people making $120,000 a year will want to share a building with someone on food stamps and welfare. How many people making $120,000 a year want to step over crack heads to get into their apartment building. How many people making $120,000 want to live in an apartment building without, a pool, a door man, a community room, an exercise room and all the other amenities. When you put people without money in the same building with people who have money the have not's target the haves. The have's move away and you are back in the ghetto again.
    Now if you have people earning $40,000 a year living with people making $120,000 a year or more that might work better. If I were making $45,000 a year I'd love to live in an upscale building located near a Starbucks and a Whole Foods. Even if you have dirt poor folk living in an upscale community and if Whole Foods takes SNAP EDT or whatever. Trying to live on welfare and snap is hard enough at Safeway. You really want to try to feed a family for $4.00 a meal brought from Trader Joe's , Fresh Market, Whole Foods and their upscale like!
    Throwing a bunch of dirt poor folk to live among the upper middle class can work but rarely does. People who have $25,000 to $40,000 incomes might work out but they are not the people most in need of housing. I doubt a homeless person has access to $25,000 a year.

    • @earthandwind820
      @earthandwind820 6 років тому +1

      Canis Lupus it’s sandwiched between a very affluent neighborhood on one-side and a heavily gentrifying neighborhood on the other. It’s a huge housing complex divided by a major street. As far as I’ve heard, they’re making one-side(nicer access to the river) the luxury apartments and the other side (divided the big street) the low-income. I don’t believe they’re even having them in the same building or the same side.
      A lot of people moving in and doing the gentrifying are from out-of-town. All the developers have to do is rebrand the area and they’re set. We have entire neighborhoods here in Chicago being rebranded with generic names so as to erase the previous association.

    • @DJPoundPuppy
      @DJPoundPuppy 6 років тому +2

      Are you saying low-income residents are crack heads?

    • @AUTISTICLYCAN
      @AUTISTICLYCAN Рік тому +1

      @Jose Zamora I've lived well most of my life and I never hunted poor people to ply them with dope and alcohol. I will admit to keeping myself to myself. I don't open my window to help strangers even in my better off neighborhood. As a friend of mine said last night it's much easier being friends with someone who like you does NOT NEED anything. When you make good money you are not a slave to your needs because all needs are possible to achieve with a modest level of work or planning. I respect alleys dumpsters and the like because anything I need to do I can afford to do it RIGHT without hurting others! The one thing about having money is I can go where I please. If I want to visit the YMCA pool I can and will no matter what you think.
      Let me tell you something about having money. If I were to walk into the YMCA craving a dip in the pool all I have to do is make a donation to the YMCA. Trust me a $10,000 donation gets me a golden invite to the YMCA pool, basketball courts, crafts activities and any other amenities that YMCA has on offer when I visit. Not that I would want to swim in just any YMCA pool. Some YMCA's are located in posh communities and it is their rich patrons that allow them offer free or reduced cost access to poor people. In many respects you are biting the hand that feeds you when you suggest rich folk aren't welcome at the YMCA. If rich people did not donate generously to the YMCA it would close up and the poor people it served would be sleeping under cardboard and eating from dumpsters.
      Fact is most rich people seldom use the facilities or services they donate money, materials or services to maintain. Most so called free clinics for the poor are sustained in part or in whole by the donations made by the rich or better off. Oh sure we get tax breaks and such but most rich people feel they have a duty to donate to worthy causes. There is a saying my mom taught me early in life. "TO THOSE WHOM MUCH IS GIVEN MUCH IS EXPECTED!" I have a duty to help others by volunteering and donating to those causes that help the poor in ways I understand. You are an angry socialist which is your right but I don't hate you because I can afford not to hate. You can't!

    • @joystratton68
      @joystratton68 3 місяці тому

      And they are mixing them in with the mentally ill, who go off their bmeds and blast music all night!! Many people have got unalived

  • @holland9199
    @holland9199 Рік тому +1

    These buildings need to be gutted from top to bottom and rebuilt by reputable and trusted developers that will not repatriate funds for their own personal gain line NYC Chicago and other cities 🤔

  • @craigsully9661
    @craigsully9661 3 роки тому +2

    If you want it to last and be respected you have to turn it into high end condos no public housing people who live n housing don't respect it cuz they don't own it when u own and can invest in your property it lasts forever

    • @SeventhCereal
      @SeventhCereal 3 роки тому +1

      Even dogs take better care of their kennels then some of these people. You don't have to be an owner to respect property and capital.. Should be thankful you aren't out on the streets. What is wrong with your brain?

  • @615BlackBarbie
    @615BlackBarbie 3 роки тому +2

    Listen, people are paying rent and work orders. Fix the building with that money!

  • @Mr102185
    @Mr102185 2 роки тому +3

    I’m all for change. These neighborhoods can’t stay ghetto forever. We need more nice neighborhoods on the south and west sides of the city. Black people need to get a education and get good jobs. It can happen. Trust in God to show you the way. There is no excuse for hoods to exist.

  • @NicoleKe
    @NicoleKe 3 роки тому +2

    Tear it down. Rebuild mixed community.

  • @alexanderdrywall3043
    @alexanderdrywall3043 3 роки тому +1

    Gentrification!
    Do it!

  • @Bakkwoodz34
    @Bakkwoodz34 11 років тому

    I guess not

  • @keeppunchin2302
    @keeppunchin2302 Рік тому +1

    Keep Public housing public!!!

  • @OGimperial97
    @OGimperial97 2 роки тому +2

    Bring back the project Deuces.

  • @SuperJasondennis
    @SuperJasondennis Рік тому

    PROJECT LATIN KING..... BIG OLE K

  • @eileeneclark9011
    @eileeneclark9011 6 років тому +3

    7/19/18.....Need to tear it down----haul off the debris----rebuild but have professional construction & slight mix with public housing for VETTED lower income housing mixed with middle class....with varying rents & SOMEBODY IN CHARGE to prevent crime/ criminal influence. Put pro real estate rental firm in charge & KEEP IT NICE & CRIME/DRUG FREE!

  • @pollyannalight6313
    @pollyannalight6313 7 років тому +8

    Wow have they made any repairs since the 1930's! That's decades of neglect! Fix that shit and not for the rich!

  • @user-we3pn1ok8q
    @user-we3pn1ok8q 9 років тому +2

    I hate living here ;-;

  • @chairmanofrussia
    @chairmanofrussia 11 років тому +10

    how about they renovate the building and not kick out poor people. I mean what the fuck. How insulting "a 40-acre monument to 1930s housing policy". If you don't want an old building from the 30's standing there, then renovate the damn building. It's not that hard!

  • @deneenjeffries2768
    @deneenjeffries2768 7 років тому +7

    What was the outcome ? These places could be renovated... don't kick out the decent working class.

    • @earthandwind820
      @earthandwind820 6 років тому +3

      Deneen Jeffries It’s sandwiched in between a heavily affluent, monotheistic community on one-side and a heavily gentrifying neighborhood on the other, where many houses where low-income and working class families lived were/continue to be teared down to make room for affluent yuppies moving in from out-of-town.
      The buildings have been sitting like this for years and now they have finally started to renovate. Luxury housing on one-side and low-income on the other (it’s a large housing complex and a major street divides both sides).
      Many people believe the low-income housing is simply to receive tax cuts not because they truly care.
      Also, a lot of the low-income kids(minorities) may be transferred over to attend a public school on the affluent other side. Many of the parents of that school don’t want those kids there; I know because my nephew used to go to that school. It’s a well-funded, predominately upper (white) class school. These are the same people who have “hate has no home here” signs on their windows (in reference to this past election). I’ll let you do the judging 😑

    • @user-rz9wz1bx2l
      @user-rz9wz1bx2l 4 роки тому +1

      @@earthandwind820 its gentrifiers-then rich white yuppies. The poor-kick out. They dont care where u go, even if ur homeless. That Chicago.

  • @chrisglover7427
    @chrisglover7427 5 років тому +2

    lol...so mixed income will show low or no income what middle class looks like and then they will desire it..and go out and work hard to get it..oh i think i get it now....gtf outta here...kickdoor express here we come..

    • @TeeTee-2016
      @TeeTee-2016 5 років тому +2

      It should be mandatory that they work and pay at least 75% of their own rent. That way they will take better care of the property.

    • @user-rz9wz1bx2l
      @user-rz9wz1bx2l 4 роки тому

      @@TeeTee-2016 all on a minimum wage job yeh!

    • @TeeTee-2016
      @TeeTee-2016 4 роки тому

      @@user-rz9wz1bx2l it's not about how much you make but, how well you manage it.

    • @SeventhCereal
      @SeventhCereal 3 роки тому

      Mixed income = fresh blood for parasites to feed on. That is all that means.

    • @Cool412Breeze
      @Cool412Breeze 2 роки тому

      @@user-rz9wz1bx2l learn a trade while youre working at popeyes.

  • @johnkurttate8978
    @johnkurttate8978 4 роки тому +4

    Get a job.. Quit relying on the government..

    • @user-rz9wz1bx2l
      @user-rz9wz1bx2l 4 роки тому +1

      WTF a minimum wage job? Why dont u STFU

    • @nonic4vic600
      @nonic4vic600 4 роки тому +2

      Sometimes that cant happen

    • @SeventhCereal
      @SeventhCereal 3 роки тому +1

      @@user-rz9wz1bx2l Even if the job pays nothing it is still better than doing drugs, multiplying like rabbits, or getting arrested/shot by the police. Consider the wage a bonus.

  • @Howard007
    @Howard007 5 років тому

    My last name is Lathrop !

  • @rachaelnichter5525
    @rachaelnichter5525 10 місяців тому +1

    it began to erode...wen black people moved in

  • @kiyahmcfadden1271
    @kiyahmcfadden1271 9 років тому +9

    That's where I live and I love it you don't. know what going on so I believe that if u come over here and c what we do you will see we are a big family