That's the funny thing, when you grow up in the hood, it doesn't seem dangerous. It seems mad regular until you leave and then you see it from the outside in and you're like "Oh shit, this place was kinda crazy huh?" lol
I was talking to my friend about this yesterday. He’s from the projects and got out due to college but when he went back to visit family he felt like shit because of how bad they were. He hasn’t been back in so long he just forgot how awful it was.
I realize it when I’m telling stories from child hood and people be looking at me crazy like wtf?? Lol I don’t think I would want it differently tho it builds character. Yeah it’s sad but it is what it is we just gotta make the best of what we got
Growing up in the projects we dnt see it as bad or fear for our lives because we become desensitized to everything around us. Once we get away it’s like whoa 🤯
Dee Shanell: “Awww, Brings back Memories, Parties That Got Shot Up, Playing Double Dutch😊” Me: Why she saying it like if she went to DisneyWorld when she was young😭💀💀
From experience, it’s true you totally become desensitized to living in the projects. It’s really sad to see people growing old there. Generations of families stay trapped and never get out.
Man that used to terrify me so much growing up. We had the 45 year old man still living with his mom, the talented guitar player who almost got out but became an alcoholic and just spends his time drunk on his front porch, half my friends either joined the gang or had kids still in HS and ended up staying there. One old guy there says living in the projects, you’re just one step away from being homeless. All that motivated me to get out as soon as I could. It feels weird going back to visit my family. The ugliness you never noticed before and all the new generation of gangbangers eyeing me up everytime I’m there when back then I practically knew all of them. Half the stories I tell my wife about when i was growing up has her eyes wide and she always ask me “how the fuck are you alive??”
I grew up in the Richard Allen projects in North Philly in the 80s and 90s. It was very bad. Never heard so many gun shots in my life. It was every night. After a while I got used to it.
I use to live in the Cabrini Green projects when I was a kid. I remember my mother use to make me take the garbage out and I use to be really scared because I have to pass through gang bangers and drug dealers everyday.
I grew up in a rough neighborhood as well and it's true. You don't notice how bad it is until you move away. I had so many thing stolen from my house and it just seemed so regular to me that it never registered that that isn't normal outside of bad neighborhoods.
Growing up here in Washington, DC, we got Kenilworth Ave apartments, Simple City (Benning Terrace), Lincoln Heights apartments, The Tyler House apartments, Potomac Gardens, Greenway Apartments, Surcum Corda (demolished), Mayfair Apartments, Azeeze-Bates Apartments. Rough places here. But you’d be surprised that while the projects is rough to outsiders, they can act like family to each other… at times.
The way they let people take over these places and make the prices go up is krazy too. Government and mfers with money really be doing whatever they want
It also depends on the residents because some projects and areas surrounding them aren’t as bad as others and don’t have as many shootings and shit going on. It mostly depends on who’s over there and when.
NELLY grew up in St.louis MO, to the left of the Mississippi River I grew up in East Saint Louis Illinois to the right of the MISSISSIPPI River. Tina turner moved to East Saint Louis and stayed down the street from my grandmother, my grandmother introduced Tina Turners mother to nursing school! Fun fact alot of famous 0eople are from here!
I am so glad that I grew up in a middle class neighborhood. I’ve only been to the “hood” to pick a friend up or if I was in a car and didn’t have a choice. The places I went were no where near as bad as these though.
Jordan Downs has changed..somewhat. the projects are still there, but the city build big townhomes and most if not all the residents of JD live there now. If you keep on down Century where it turns into 100th St they are back there. It gives a small town/city feel.
It isn't until you leave an area that you realize just how messed up it is. Then you vow to never return to that again. It's sad to know that the same people who thought up putting a bunch of struggling people together with little chance to get out laid the blueprint for how to keep people poor today.
I grew up in Houston. Lived in a shotgun style ≈100 year old house. Shotgun style houses were designed after the shacks enslaved ppl lived in on plantations. Shit was depressing. Glad I made it out. Edit: place was a rental. We didn’t own it, also the rear door was original and it used a big skeleton key.
I used to live in Newark NJ my entire life. Me and my family moved out a couple years ago. We go back to Newark to see family and friends now and it’s like “holy shit this was our hometown” like we didn’t spend years their.
I’m from NY and been in the projects before and it’s not as bad as ppl think I mean yea you have your street’s politics but, if you know your surroundings n don’t be in other ppl business you will be good. NY is the Mecca of projects because our housing is expensive and making $18 an hour isn’t even enough to get you a decent home.
9:16 Wow... I guess I'm just used to living in/being all over Compton, Lynwood, South Central, Long Beach, Watts, and Willowbrook lmaooo. I've never had an issue, but yeah it's not for everybody tho. I guess I'm just used to it, just driving by my old schools and homes, its dusty asfc now. The funniest memories always happen to me in the hood, idk why ahaha.
I grew up in the projects in Saint Louis I swear i had more fun than i did when i went to live with my father in a 5 bedroom house. It shaped who i am today( just graduated with a masters degree) yeah things were bad now that i look at it but back then those people were the nicest and would give you the shirt off their back.
"I ain't never seen this grass look this green...what year cuz all this was brown bitch" 😂😂 growing up in dangerous places sometimes never seem dangerous until you look back and it's like, "wow"😮
From KCMO. Lived in Riverview, which was just as bad as most housing projects. But I remember we lived in a place everyone called “new jack city”…. You can imagine how that was lol
Marcy houses is borderline Bed-Stuy/Williamsburg area in Brooklyn is pretty gentrified nowadays y’all can most def go there he’s being dramatic lmao you will be fine. I’m truly shocked he didn’t mention ANY of the Bronx p’s, considering they have gang wars between buildings on the daily but okay sure.
I’m from Southeast DC and maaan. Second Street was something else. I almost got mauled AND mugged by a dog. It was TRAINED by its owner to run up on people, growl and snifff to see if you have any food, and then run back to the owner. I’m so glad I didn’t have any food on me that day or I would’ve probably died. I was like 10.
Idk how Peppertree in Memphis ain't on here. Those were the worst three years of my life. It was a death there like every day and the cops damn near lived over there it was so bad. My head was on a swivel 24/7 everytime I stepped outside even though I knew mostly everybody there.
What about the pork 'n' beans projects in Miami. It's by the police station and it was still the wild west over there. It got shut down a few years ago. Some ppl still live there tho. My Babymama mom live there. Imagine having to go get yo son from grandma house, especially at night 🤦🏾♂️
My family grew up in South Central. Still live there. They are the nicest people, they love what they have and are content with life.and my other family live in Nice homes in Like Diamond Bar, Anaheim Hills. They are the most boujee, horrible, always complaining,gossipy people
I have been watching a lot of these public housing videos. I love history and hear people talk about growing up un the projects. I wanted to know what that meant. So...I went down this rabbit hole of people wanting to make money and take advantage of folks back in the day. The answer was cheaply built and nonmaintained homes for poor people. I have realized that housing alone is not the solution to poverty. There were homes but little opportunities and good paying jobs for these people. They turn to quick ways of making money which is drug and crime related. Drugs alone brings a lot of unstable activity. Addiction makes people do crazy things. But people in fear also brings more guns and more violence. Its a huge cycle and vortex. Not to mention the conditions that folks lived in because the greedy people who owned these didnt care about the people living there. Residents lived in despair and lost hope and turned to drugs to numb the pain. I saw a thing where fathers left because the work they were offered paid less than welfare. But welfare wasnt much either so momma still had to work. So kids went without parents and discipline. Every aspect of these peoples lives is so messed up. I grew up poor but in a rural farm family in MI. When I think I lived a hard life I got a huge reality check that I didnt have to live like so many of the people from these communities. I am shook! It breaks my heart than anyone had to live this way.
The narrator did not make the "projects" sound bad at all. Especially with the pics. He even described the projects as the governments attempt to help low income families. It's literally called the projects cuz it was a PROJECT. Like an experiment. I remember looking it up cuz I was tryna figure out why it's called the projects. There's actually a # associated with the project. Like project # 27 or like how section refers to section 8 of the goverment plan.
I grew up in downtown Norfolk Tidewater Park they forgot to put that in their when I lived there as a kid we had roaches and our neighbors kids stole me and my brothers and sisters toys outside
My neighborhood slowly got better (it’s really close to dc and Baltimore so the location was worth a lot) . So it eventually wasn’t considered the projects I remember years ago the “hood/hard” kids in high school rode my bus and complained how ghetto and ratchet my neighborhood was. It’s funny cause to my nerdy ass , it was jus a regular neighborhood 😂
lol, that man straight sugar coated what the cabrini green projects were like lol, i grew up there....and it was quite a bit worse than the tad bits of information he gave.___.
That's the funny thing, when you grow up in the hood, it doesn't seem dangerous. It seems mad regular until you leave and then you see it from the outside in and you're like "Oh shit, this place was kinda crazy huh?" lol
I was talking to my friend about this yesterday. He’s from the projects and got out due to college but when he went back to visit family he felt like shit because of how bad they were. He hasn’t been back in so long he just forgot how awful it was.
I realize it when I’m telling stories from child hood and people be looking at me crazy like wtf?? Lol I don’t think I would want it differently tho it builds character. Yeah it’s sad but it is what it is we just gotta make the best of what we got
Facts
Yo!!! That survivors guilt you get out and come back after a long period of time eats at you. Its taken me years to get over that feeling.
The fact you said “mad regular” I already know where you from
Growing up in the projects we dnt see it as bad or fear for our lives because we become desensitized to everything around us. Once we get away it’s like whoa 🤯
No lie, its crazy cause I miss it sometimes but then I go see my homegirl who live in one still and I'm reminded why tf we left
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Dee Shanell: “Awww, Brings back Memories, Parties That Got Shot Up, Playing Double Dutch😊”
Me: Why she saying it like if she went to DisneyWorld when she was young😭💀💀
we know Dee ain’t right in the head atp 😭😭
I LOL @ her talking about the grass never being that green
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@@aharris82 🤣🤣😂😂
@@aharris82 JGKKDdskskkssk💀💀💀
@@aharris82 lmfaooo🤣🤣
DEE I CANNOT “brings back memories….parties.. that got shot up , playing double Dutch “😭😭😭
From experience, it’s true you totally become desensitized to living in the projects. It’s really sad to see people growing old there. Generations of families stay trapped and never get out.
Man that used to terrify me so much growing up. We had the 45 year old man still living with his mom, the talented guitar player who almost got out but became an alcoholic and just spends his time drunk on his front porch, half my friends either joined the gang or had kids still in HS and ended up staying there. One old guy there says living in the projects, you’re just one step away from being homeless. All that motivated me to get out as soon as I could. It feels weird going back to visit my family. The ugliness you never noticed before and all the new generation of gangbangers eyeing me up everytime I’m there when back then I practically knew all of them.
Half the stories I tell my wife about when i was growing up has her eyes wide and she always ask me “how the fuck are you alive??”
I grew up in the Richard Allen projects in North Philly in the 80s and 90s. It was very bad. Never heard so many gun shots in my life. It was every night. After a while I got used to it.
@@peters10456170 Big facts 💯
@@stuckinthe90sThegoldenera fam that’s wild
Video: Top Worst Housing Projects in the US-Jordan Downs, California
Dee: AYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEE 🤩🥳💃🏾
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😂 just don’t let
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7:32 “Parties that got shot up” *smiles*
I use to live in the Cabrini Green projects when I was a kid. I remember my mother use to make me take the garbage out and I use to be really scared because I have to pass through gang bangers and drug dealers everyday.
Damn Dee lived in the jordan downs projects, she from the hood hood
Not tall and busted 😭😭😭😭 Dee you’re too much lmao
@D you know you wrong! 😂
I grew up in a rough neighborhood as well and it's true. You don't notice how bad it is until you move away. I had so many thing stolen from my house and it just seemed so regular to me that it never registered that that isn't normal outside of bad neighborhoods.
Growing up here in Washington, DC, we got Kenilworth Ave apartments, Simple City (Benning Terrace), Lincoln Heights apartments, The Tyler House apartments, Potomac Gardens, Greenway Apartments, Surcum Corda (demolished), Mayfair Apartments, Azeeze-Bates Apartments.
Rough places here. But you’d be surprised that while the projects is rough to outsiders, they can act like family to each other… at times.
The way they let people take over these places and make the prices go up is krazy too. Government and mfers with money really be doing whatever they want
I'm expecting to see Cabrini Green on here. Even though the area has been completely rebuilt since the old days.
I expect to see parkway gardens another Chicago housing project that’s equally notorious. Cabrini was something glad it’s gone
Grew up in Cabrini in the 80s, Spent many nights sleeping in the tub.
@@sambo3963 was it because of the shootings you slept in the tub?
And add the Ida B Wells to that too. Parkway gardens were bad too
@@ghettoshinobi2222 were... parkway is still bad but despite that it has hella celebrity’s
It also depends on the residents because some projects and areas surrounding them aren’t as bad as others and don’t have as many shootings and shit going on. It mostly depends on who’s over there and when.
Awww! We got to see Dee's old playground. So cute.
Man, Dee really went from one of the worst projects in the country to having a Porsche and an Audi.
NELLY grew up in St.louis MO, to the left of the Mississippi River I grew up in East Saint Louis Illinois to the right of the MISSISSIPPI River. Tina turner moved to East Saint Louis and stayed down the street from my grandmother, my grandmother introduced Tina Turners mother to nursing school! Fun fact alot of famous 0eople are from here!
I am so glad that I grew up in a middle class neighborhood. I’ve only been to the “hood” to pick a friend up or if I was in a car and didn’t have a choice. The places I went were no where near as bad as these though.
Jordan Downs has changed..somewhat. the projects are still there, but the city build big townhomes and most if not all the residents of JD live there now. If you keep on down Century where it turns into 100th St they are back there. It gives a small town/city feel.
"i've never seen the grass this green" silly asf
with a straight face 😂😂😂
It isn't until you leave an area that you realize just how messed up it is. Then you vow to never return to that again. It's sad to know that the same people who thought up putting a bunch of struggling people together with little chance to get out laid the blueprint for how to keep people poor today.
I grew up in Houston. Lived in a shotgun style ≈100 year old house. Shotgun style houses were designed after the shacks enslaved ppl lived in on plantations. Shit was depressing. Glad I made it out.
Edit: place was a rental. We didn’t own it, also the rear door was original and it used a big skeleton key.
Wow my projects was the number 1 worst projects CG Cabrini Green that was the trenches frfr
Bruh I remember hearing about the children fight club incident as a kid. 💀
he also left out that the Cabrini Green project was also used as the backdrop for the legendary 1970's sitcom "Good Times".
I used to live in Newark NJ my entire life. Me and my family moved out a couple years ago. We go back to Newark to see family and friends now and it’s like “holy shit this was our hometown” like we didn’t spend years their.
I’m from NY and been in the projects before and it’s not as bad as ppl think I mean yea you have your street’s politics but, if you know your surroundings n don’t be in other ppl business you will be good. NY is the Mecca of projects because our housing is expensive and making $18 an hour isn’t even enough to get you a decent home.
9:16 Wow... I guess I'm just used to living in/being all over Compton, Lynwood, South Central, Long Beach, Watts, and Willowbrook lmaooo. I've never had an issue, but yeah it's not for everybody tho. I guess I'm just used to it, just driving by my old schools and homes, its dusty asfc now.
The funniest memories always happen to me in the hood, idk why ahaha.
The tall projects are even worse when the elevator is not working
I expected to the see the Pink Houses in Brooklyn NY make the list. Those projects are scary.
I grew up in the projects in Saint Louis I swear i had more fun than i did when i went to live with my father in a 5 bedroom house. It shaped who i am today( just graduated with a masters degree) yeah things were bad now that i look at it but back then those people were the nicest and would give you the shirt off their back.
Marcy not the worst project in Brooklyn. That honor go to Pink Houses by far not even close.
Facts. If you live in NY this is just something you know.
Facts
"Tall and bussed" 😂
As much as the media talks about how bad Baltimore is I’m surprised we weren’t on this list.
Exactly i was really waiting but i guess we’re not the worst apparently Lol
I'm from East St. Louis. Yeah JDS is definitely the hood... I got too many stories out there. My uncle got killed out there.
I never knew they filmed candyman their I think that's why my mom use to always say she lived down the street from candyman when she was younger
Why does the thumbnail looks like she is about to cry lol
"I ain't never seen this grass look this green...what year cuz all this was brown bitch" 😂😂
growing up in dangerous places sometimes never seem dangerous until you look back and it's like, "wow"😮
Fun fact: Gene Simmons grew up across the street from the Marcy projects.
“But people knew my daddy and knew not to play with me” is big facts👌🏾
I def knew Queensbridge & marcy would be on here
Growing up in the Jordan downs was lit but made me who I am today sad they’re getting rid of them 😔
LA projects don’t even look like the projects compared to nyc projects
dee finna throw gang signs when jordan downs came up 😂
Lol they definitely look cleaner than Marcy and it's only two floors lol she making it sound good
From KCMO. Lived in Riverview, which was just as bad as most housing projects.
But I remember we lived in a place everyone called “new jack city”…. You can imagine how that was lol
Like everything in the US. The housing projects are terrible.
Austria has amazing housing projects
Marcy houses is borderline Bed-Stuy/Williamsburg area in Brooklyn is pretty gentrified nowadays y’all can most def go there he’s being dramatic lmao you will be fine. I’m truly shocked he didn’t mention ANY of the Bronx p’s, considering they have gang wars between buildings on the daily but okay sure.
I’m from Southeast DC and maaan. Second Street was something else. I almost got mauled AND mugged by a dog. It was TRAINED by its owner to run up on people, growl and snifff to see if you have any food, and then run back to the owner. I’m so glad I didn’t have any food on me that day or I would’ve probably died. I was like 10.
I think a lot of these places was on the world series of dice ( the Chapelle show)
Idk how Peppertree in Memphis ain't on here. Those were the worst three years of my life. It was a death there like every day and the cops damn near lived over there it was so bad. My head was on a swivel 24/7 everytime I stepped outside even though I knew mostly everybody there.
Damn Mott haven in the Bronx isn’t even on this list 🤦🏿♂️
Facts right
I grew up in Robert Taylor Homes. Theyre condos/ gentrified now. I think some of the Cabrini Green buildings are still there but shut down
I think Juvenile is from Magnolia projects, I think
Not dees memory of the party's that got shot up 😭😭😭
Damn what about Techwood it was the first projects ever in the U.S in Atlanta but nobody ever talks about outside Atlanta
Now I wonder how many of these places are becoming gentrified at the moment…..
Shanell you look so pretty🥰
If he did Chicago which I’m from he should have did the Ida B Wells. Honestly the Taylor homes were bad but the ida b wells were worse.
What about the pork 'n' beans projects in Miami. It's by the police station and it was still the wild west over there. It got shut down a few years ago. Some ppl still live there tho. My Babymama mom live there. Imagine having to go get yo son from grandma house, especially at night 🤦🏾♂️
My family grew up in South Central. Still live there. They are the nicest people, they love what they have and are content with life.and my other family live in Nice homes in Like Diamond Bar, Anaheim Hills. They are the most boujee, horrible, always complaining,gossipy people
I’m really surprised Memphis isn’t on this list. I hear gunshots now while typing this😂
If I’m not mistaken “Magnolia” playboy Carti is the song you’re referring.
that or Magnolia Shorty who was actually from the NOLA
@@cyntstancil4561 you’re so right! Didn’t think of that one 💯
I'm from Chicago and trust me they didn't play in the Robert Taylor Home's or Cabrini green
I love watching ur videos in the morning with my bowl of cereal
I have been watching a lot of these public housing videos. I love history and hear people talk about growing up un the projects. I wanted to know what that meant. So...I went down this rabbit hole of people wanting to make money and take advantage of folks back in the day. The answer was cheaply built and nonmaintained homes for poor people. I have realized that housing alone is not the solution to poverty. There were homes but little opportunities and good paying jobs for these people. They turn to quick ways of making money which is drug and crime related. Drugs alone brings a lot of unstable activity. Addiction makes people do crazy things. But people in fear also brings more guns and more violence. Its a huge cycle and vortex. Not to mention the conditions that folks lived in because the greedy people who owned these didnt care about the people living there. Residents lived in despair and lost hope and turned to drugs to numb the pain. I saw a thing where fathers left because the work they were offered paid less than welfare. But welfare wasnt much either so momma still had to work. So kids went without parents and discipline. Every aspect of these peoples lives is so messed up. I grew up poor but in a rural farm family in MI. When I think I lived a hard life I got a huge reality check that I didnt have to live like so many of the people from these communities. I am shook! It breaks my heart than anyone had to live this way.
What’s crazy is my family is from Robert Taylor homes in Chicago.
The narrator did not make the "projects" sound bad at all. Especially with the pics. He even described the projects as the governments attempt to help low income families. It's literally called the projects cuz it was a PROJECT. Like an experiment. I remember looking it up cuz I was tryna figure out why it's called the projects. There's actually a # associated with the project. Like project # 27 or like how section refers to section 8 of the goverment plan.
I’m surprised they forgot StoneyBrooks in Riviera Beach FL.
damn stapleton projects from staten island didn't make it on the list?
I'm from *Louisiana* but not
*New Orleans* even though I love
*New Orleans*
Surprised Berry Farms in Washington DC isn't there.
It’s sad I’m from Saint Louis and I wasn’t expecting the ones they showed to pop up.. then I realize they happened some time after this.
Them* people stay saying the projects are “scary” smh
yeah that candyman joint is messed up. that movie fucked me up when I was a kid
Atlanta projects... Eastlake meadows and techwood nothing get more dangerous and depressing than that
Man Im grateful I never lived in the pjs even tho I was there damn near everyday cause of my homies and rucker park right across the street
Dawg I live in Brownsville and……bro
@@galexjamn3182 lmaooo fr shit happens every single day here😭
Bruh ive never even noticed how dangerous my neighborhood was. People was getting stabbed left and right outside our house
I thought Parkway Gardens aka O Block would be on here
@TBupnext oh my bad I just thought it would be put on here
I knew a kid growing up who was a self described "Street Pharmacist".
Isk it would be mad fascinating to see an anime mc have this type of class rather than all the typical ones.
Imagine people paying to see a tour of how awful your home is. How very American.
I grew up in downtown Norfolk Tidewater Park they forgot to put that in their when I lived there as a kid we had roaches and our neighbors kids stole me and my brothers and sisters toys outside
I was literally watching ur videos😂😂
same lmao
Bro I use to live in the John Desheilds it felt regular but now that I got away its like "dang that's crazy"
I KNEW Robert taylor homes would be on here. That's where Corey Holcomn grew up and he talks about it a lot
i just knew cabrini green was going to be first
Thank God I grew up in the suburbs lol thank u mom and dad 😁
Lmaaaooo @ You rather be in the hood with a view. "You rather cry in a Ferrari or a honda"
Wow they aint even put parkway gardens
My neighborhood slowly got better (it’s really close to dc and Baltimore so the location was worth a lot) . So it eventually wasn’t considered the projects
I remember years ago the “hood/hard” kids in high school rode my bus and complained how ghetto and ratchet my neighborhood was.
It’s funny cause to my nerdy ass , it was jus a regular neighborhood 😂
Surprised I ain’t see no Houston ones on this list cause I know we got hella bad ones
Hope you enjoyed your stay in Queens from a Queens native!
I live in Ny and both of those projects are crazy
😐 Uhhh it's NOT a good thing that Cali has shorter housing projects vs. NYC's taller ones. That indicates that there's less people who need it..
No Brownsville
NY got 30 housing projects alone without Chicago
Is your thumbnail of you when you yawned in the beginning of the video????
LOL
lol, that man straight sugar coated what the cabrini green projects were like lol, i grew up there....and it was quite a bit worse than the tad bits of information he gave.___.