US housing investment firm Blackstone is set to enter the social housing sector in Britain. The company is the largest residential landlord in the US through its subsidiary Invitation Homes. It is a predatory investment group worth almost £300 billion. It sucked up huge amounts of property across the US and Europe in the fallout from the economic crisis which began in 2007. Blackstone CEO Stephen Schwarzman is a friend of right wingers Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump, daughter of Donald Trump.
@@mitchellaimss1924 I don't. I'm light skinned, and dudes didn't like me then. I came back after I got out, and I could smell some bullshit cooking. Pyeerwwn!
I grew up in the projects in the Lower East Side, Manhattan. It was interesting to hear about Jacob Riis since one of the projects in L.E.S. is named after him. My old neighborhood has changed significantly from the time I was there. There are fancy shops and cafes that would have never been there 20 years ago. It’d be interesting to learn about gentrification.
Most of the public housing you'll find in the Houston area is recently constructed three story buildings in a tight cluster near centers of employment in suburban areas. They are built by private companies relying on the federal subsidy to make their revenue stable enough to justify the capital outlay. Until you know what to look for, you cannot tell the difference between these micro-projects and the high end apartments at the next intersection.
If you can't tell the difference between the public housing and high end apartments, just wait a few years! The residents of Public housing who pay pennies per month will screw it up before long, just like they always do! People who are given free stuff have no respect for things like owners do! No one who is able bodied should be able to live off anyone else who pays taxes!
I've got an idea idea. How about housing projects for single people who are economically disadvantaged? I'm trying to live in New York City but can't find any studios for under 4000 per month!!!!
Hmmm that could be a good topic for a second episode on this topic?? If you're interested in seeing more info on the demographics of households living in public housing, be sure to check out the articles and links in the works cited. Thanks for commenting!
Come to Louisville to live! You can find homes for about $700.00 a month for a mortgage or about that or a little less for rent. There are places which allow pets as well. I own a condo for about $750.00 a month 30-year mortgage. I have 1000 sq. ft., 2 br, 2 bath, like a nice, comfortable, little house. We have also a lower cost of living here and plenty of culture, art, music, STEM, and more tucked into our nooks and crannies. We have public transportation as buses (no rail yet), and Lyft and Uber are here as well along with Yellow and other "color" cab service. Having a car here comes in handy if you don't want to walk; some bus routes can have sparse stops at some parts. We have some food deserts (limited groceries), but for the most part, we have good coverage of necessary businesses. I'd set my city of Louisville, KY up against New York any day! And our park system was created by the same person who created Central Park: Frederick Law Olmstead. Pop down for a spell and visit!
A lot of people here in Northern Illinois see the increase in crime in the suburbs and beyond as the aftermath of Cabrini Green. I've never lived in a housing project, so I wouldn't know. When I was very young, the local housing project was a long rambling structure across from the doorknob factory. Nobody called it a "project" then, just "the appartments". People would move in from one of the larger housing projects in Chicago, find a job at the factory, and eventually move to a small house or an apartment in a privately-owned complex nearby (both were abundant and affordable). This system worked pretty well for about 10 years in the 80s and 90s. Then, just as Cabrini Green was closing entirely, the doorknob factory started laying off workers and moving production to Mexico. Several of the privately-owned complexes fell into disrepair and were condemned around that time. All in all a perfect storm. The area is quite run-down and dangerous now. I wouldn't know exactly why, as I've never had the chance to talk with anyone who witnessed the transition from inside the project. It seems we lost a vital stepping stone when factory jobs went overseas.
Corporations move jobs overseas to save more money for their shareholders, then blame the poor for not having a job. Or blame the poor for taking a "bad" job they "should have known can't support a family". Don't forget to blame the poor for "crime" and "drug gangs" when there are no "support a family" paying jobs around. The rich get richer, the poor get blamed (and poorer). Sounds like the USA, yup.
The projects were designed for short term living. The people in charge were too lazy to enforce the rules and conditions of living in the housing units. This meant you have to hold a job in order to qualify and live there. Market housing enforces the same rules. Things were better when the projects only allowed married families. Market value apartment complexes back in the day only allowed adults without children. This wasn't a bad idea because kids cry and make noise all day. The standards were lowered. Anybody and everyone with a pulse moved in.
@@nicecutie well in Singapore they have the best public housing and speaking of living with family? Theres an 80% chance the family itself lives in public housing
Some of the comments remind me how lucky I am to live where I do. This public housing location is newer (2012), has central air & dishwasher, regular maintenance, and should something go wrong, the maintenance crew are here within an hour or two. Unless they need to special order a part or something. I also feel kinda depressed about living where I do though. I'm on disability (SSDI) and unable to work, so I'm more than likely going to be stuck here for the rest of my life. Don't get me wrong, I am grateful, but man it sucks when you know you aren't ever going to own a home and be more than a foot away from neighbors.
I know how you feel. I live in an apartment and i know i might never own a home thanks to high interest rates and because of how expensive they are. But i don't mind living in an apartment though.
You guys aren't missing anything. I own my home, which is very affordable. As a young child my family received a project apartment after being homeless. I moved out of NYC & worked myself into home ownership. After 20yrs of working I've become disabled. I have to mow my own yard, make my own improvement(thanks to RUclips). I worry about things breaking, stove, frig, air conditiner. Even though I enjoy my home tremendously. I worry about the upkeep. The upside is I can afford my mortgage & I can sell for a profit. It's not worth the grief though.
You got it made! Where i live, ppl pee in elevators, throw trash out the window 24/7, break the lobby doors bc they are too cheap to buy a $25 key, the single parent mothers allow their kids to destroy the neighborhoods with crime, loitering, smoking weed in hallways etc. You should be happy if this is the opposite of where you live! Add shooting & more which they do not have outside of nycha pretty much, then maybe you'd appreciate what you have!
Norcal x14 did you know you could transfer your housing to another state or area. Do some research on this. They have better Housing Authorities in different areas.
Just wanted to say that I appreciate that this video is politically neutral. The presenter, Danielle, is not laying blame on any political party regarding the state of public housing. It's just the facts as they are. That's very rare to see nowadays.
I appreciate how you tackle tough issues without any judgement. You just explain the facts, and the different points of view to be considered. That is monumental in 2021! Please keep it up!
I live in Mississippi. We have public housing everywhere out here. I'm really surprised about that 2 Million number. I figured it would be much bigger.
Thank you for being bipartisan on this subject. The way your able clearly explain this subject. What I mean by “clearly” is the fact you never use the words like, you know and basically countless times. I truly hope this channel continues with you as the host.
When I was in my early 20s I lived in a type of big city public housing called an "SRO." It was in an old building that may have once been a nice hotel but that had lost all sentiments of luxury. The elevator was a gold thing like a bird cage, with that old hard type of plastic that isn't even used today. The room it's self was small, dirty, infested with mice and roaches, but boy did it beat sleeping on the pavement outside. I appreciated that place, it was truly my home, my first home that didn't belong to my parents and it felt absolutely luxurious by comparison. I have learned that recently that same hotel building has been sold and gutted and rebuilt and looks amazing! It was rebuilt for the purpose of public housing and I can only imagine the gratitude of those who will be residing in it in its completion.
I've worked near a few of the projects in LA and Baltimore. Sad state of affairs. Everyone wants to get out but there's nowhere to go. People who live in the suburban bubble assume that if project residents would just go to college and then get a good job, the problem is solved. Easy to say when you don't know what it's like to have to ask permission to cross certain intersections in order avoid being murdered. There has to be a top down restructuring of these neighborhoods or it will always be the same old story. Unfortunately that costs money, and the people who have it aren't willing to spend it. At least not on proactive measures. Totally fine paying for more prisons, ER rooms, and enormous police forces. But investing in an actual solution? Forget it.
It’s a similar situation here in the U.K. State overseen social engineering at its worst. The elite and the Establishment have absolutely no interest in a genuinely more equitable and socially mobile society, they never really have and they never really will.
BS, I am an immigrant and did live in what is considered a bad neighborhood. I lived with my mom only who worked live-in 5 days a week so I saw her only 2 days a week. I dropped out of school and went to work early - 16. Did hook up with bad people, but after a while went back to night school as I was working, went to college. Did not finish college, but found a job and started from the bottom and eventually worked my way towards the top in big corp. So it is very possible. The place where I grew up at had $10 hoes and crack being sold like bubble gum. So yeah it is possible, however it is not easy! Why does said neighborhood becomes bad, why does one person succeeds where the other ones fail coming from the PJs? These are the questions that need to be asked and not "oh I grew up poor and in bad place so I came up wrong and this is why I am where I am"! There always will be poor people and rich people and wealthier people will get better education, etc... It does give a better recipe for success but it is not "100%". Not trying to romanticize things but I think PJs are not the culprit - they were meant to help low income people to get to better pastures.
@@bearwooden660 The difference is that as a white guy who grew up in the middle class suburbs, I only had to put in average effort to have a pretty exceptional life. The people who make it out of the projects have to put in an exceptional effort just to have a pretty average life. People who put in an exceptional effort are rare. No matter what the socioeconomic status. Most of us phone it in. If you phone it in living in Bel Air, you will grow up rich. If you phone it in living in Wichita Falls, you will probably have a decent job that pays the bills. If you phone it in living in the projects, you will probably die in the projects.
Lived there for 4 years can say I gotten better jobs( all on my own) they had no programs for us, it wasn’t anything that at least tried to push more people into or back into the work field. It was a dog eat dog living, violence and junkies everywhere, the people walk around like zombies. If I would’ve stayed any longer I would’ve still be asleep like those people. I’m not better I just want better & I know living in that condition wouldn’t get me there. It was a stepping stone. Glad I made it out & good luck to the people that want too make it out of there but I learned the hard way everybody don’t.
Thanks for educating the miss informed. It's amazing how some ppl grew up in public housing but don't know the history behind it. Love your channel 💞💞💞
I lived in public housing for 12 years and let me tell you it's horrible. I was Grateful for having a place to stay when I was down and out, I was a teen mother and needed a hand up. I worked hard and can say I'm glad I got my shit together, went to college and was able move out. During my time living there I had my unit broke into, my car was vandalized and people got shot and beat up in front of me. I never let my child go out because she would have to fight all the time for stupid reasons, like she had nice clothes 😒 There are some good families, hardworking people who live there as well, but can not afford to leave due to high prices for rent and not having a high paying job to allow them to more to a safer area. The manger and staff in the office don't really care about tenants, all they want you to do is" pay your rent and be grateful because people would love to live in your unit", as told to me by the annual review manager when I complained about rodent infestation. I wish they would improve the living conditions and make the grounds safer because having cameras posted throughout the community does not helpim much 😑 drugs are still being sold, people are still being killed and gangs hang out all day and night The atmosphere of the projects I lived in was depressing, many do not want jobs and have been living their for generations, there grandmother, mother, cousins, etc. live there and don't realize it's not safe, that life is supposed to be like that. Project life they say.
Cabrini green housing in Chicago was torn down just as many other housing projects in Chicago and new properties were build not allowing the lesser privileged enough in finances to be able to live a decent life today leaving many homeless. Realtors asking three times a person's income in order to be able to live in a clean safe environment is ludicrous. How about those mandating those rules and regulations try living in the conditions they are implementing on others.
Unfortunately thats how it works in the real world. Debt to income. People won't take financial risk on you if your monthly out vs in is more than around 41-43%.
There are several apartments/homes that wad allocated to low income. But and I say But.... People that paid a lot for their home were mad. One person claim that They and I say They were nasty. Unfortunately, the have and have "Not" is the new form of racism.
The same thing happened in Atlanta years ago after the Olympics with them tearing down Techwood homes which was the first housing project in the United States. No plan was put into place to assist the people that were affected. Of course that contributed to crime within the community because people had that by any means necessary attitude.
@@qadan6000 bro have a look at what happened to each placw after they hold the Olympics,,theres no need for an Olympics if it creates this much problems
Public housing structures were originally designed to help low income Caucasian families until think tanks discovered that massive overcrowding led to what ethologist John B. Calhoun coined as behavioral sink which describes how societies collapse due to increased population density and lack of funding.
And then a light bulb went off, I'm sure somebody came with the idea let's use it for Black People to easily railroaded them in the justice system. Mmmmmmmmm
kadive25nyc yeah thats exactly what happened. People who want to get out and do better DO IT, people who want to live off the govt. have 6 kids and not improve, nothing will
@@aceburgers8801 it's funny how people always used that to prove a point but never point out these people mental health conditions. I grow up In the pjs and I saw plenty people move out and did good for themselves and others lived in a harsh environment and most never had a childhood or lact of educate due to this country fuc up policy that held people back...you seen the movie when they see us, shit like that happens everywhere..
kadive25nyc I agree this country has some fucked up policies etc. And mental health is a big factor. Both my parents grew up in projects in east boston. They worked and got out. I know some environments are harsher than others. I wish i had all the answers
I was glad to see that while I was living in public housing, my city of Louisville (KY) created a program: Move to Work. It was not a burden on public housing or Section 8 residents but a ( state, I think) government program to tear down old public housing buildings while also raising new mixed - income buildings with prior public housing tenants having first choice whether to live there or not and where. I don't know if it was a one - to - one correspondence between established and replacement residences, though. Another thing they do is similar to the FHA loan in that HUD provides a subsidy to public housing and Section 8 participants while requiring them to provide income and asset information, attend homeowning classes, and instruction on how to figure how much house you can buy with your income. These participants pay the same as they have (30%) of income) and receive 70% help from the government to cover 70% of mortgage and utilities together up to 30 years or until 30% of their income is greater than the assistance given. If income drops again within the 30 year period, the program picks up the subsidy as before, till the end of the 30 years, which is how much a common mortgage lasts. They require household participants to be disabled, or going to school, or working if 18 or older. Personally, I think the requirements are fair, and the benefits are large, and not just in subsidy. It allows a person the dignity of shopping for a home they want in a place where they want, with their only limit based on their public housing payment. Both of these are good programs in my city as is the help from Medicaid, CHIP, SNAP, and WIC. I would put my state (KY) family assistance programs up against the administration of any other state's programs.
I love your vids, so informative and well researched/cited. I agree with the tshirt idea. I have my own home thanks to a HUD program from the nineties called Urban Homesteading, I was very lucky to get into the program and to buy a house, I've been here almost thirty years and the mortgage is paid off; never would have had my own home otherwise.
This subject should be taught in our public schools system to today's children. So when they do graduate 🎓 from high school 🏫 they can be prepared for the future in the U.S.A.
9:25 Not anymore, in NYC we have Luxury high rise residential buildings next to Public housing. And it's a separate world that doesn't spill into each other. It's weird. I'm a realtor and lived in Manhattan
beauty4u132 😎 INTERESTING...I SEE MANY LUXURY HIGH RISER BEING BUILT IN THE GHETTO...IT FREAKS ME OUT THAT PEOPLE MANY INVESTING IN THESE NEIGHBORHOODS... CAN YOU EXPLAIN!?!? SMDH
I’ve learned a bit on public housing in Singapore & found it interesting. There it isn’t just for the poor, majority of the people have it. Imagine if we inserted a profitless, public option to housing to add supply to affordable housing for working & middle class. What effect would that have?
Not for profit, or profitless as you call it, is code language for tax avoidance, it would not really fix anything, just like many hospitals claim to be not for profit and they still end up making millions out of everyone, with the exception that they now don't pay taxes
@@thomasjust2663 I think the point is that it would be PUBLIC housing, AKA not privately owned. Hence no taxes to begin with because the government is the one supplying the "profitless" housing. I think the only way that really works though would be through rent to own programs, as consistent rent, however low, would end up turning profit in time
Sis I know you didn’t choose the content but the projects were initially built for yt families, yt flight is what made the projects accessible to non yt. Black were also excluded from the homestead act and the new deal. Please read the colors of law it details the f*&+ery and policies.
That's true to a degree, but it wasn't the case with all projects. For example, some of the most notorious projects in East Oakland were only for white people when they were first built, and they fit your description perfectly. However, West Oakland was the part of the city designated for blacks when they first came to Oakland, and they had plenty of projects built for them on that side of the city as well. So the projects were actually for all races at first, though they were segregated.
As I’m in my last semester in college and I was thinking about writing my research paper on NYCHA development and issues this should be very helpful for me to find research on thanks
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From my observation in NYC, the problem with public housing is that they typically crowd a bunch of people into one area - a high density population of poor, often poorly educated, and sometimes desperate people. Then they put these projects in the poorest neighborhoods they can get (because the rich don't want them nearby) creating few local opportunities for work or improvement. Then everyone wonders why there is a lot of violence and lack of hope. If it were up to me, I'd make these developments significantly smaller and spread them out all over the communities, or even just rent local units from within the community rather than build/manage actual buildings. This would allow enrollment into better schools and have local business/work opportunities for the residents.
i know its controversial but i think we should build something along the lines of the old workhouses. You can stay for free if you have a full time job and if you dont have one then the government should provide you with a job that both covers your rent, food, and utilities but also provides you with a salary and they help you find a real job. My dad had something like that when he was a runaway kid, they had him working in public parks in return for housing and food (he doesnt remember the name of the program, they just called it The Corps). That would help ease people into full time employment, give them skills, provide references, and show future employeers that the people in public housing are "employable". It doesnt need to necesarily need to be back breaking work, they should provide a variety of types of work, and the new workhouses shouldnt replace public housing, just supplement them.
dodgeplow I know I don’t want to pay what I’m paying in rent working my arse off to afford a decent area to have it filled with people who really shouldn’t be there. There’s already a serious problem in my area with homeless people crowding out public areas and even coffee houses with police and staff unable to remove them for political reasons. Needless to say, there’s been a huge spike in violent crime, filth, muggings, drug paraphernalia littered in playgrounds, and all that. Sorry, but it’s just not right.
@@frankySR21And your homeless probably only gonna get worst if you don't do anything about it people are just gonna start covering sidewalks with bodies if you just assume making them move is gonna solve your problem it's not peope are gonna continue losing homes apartments ect
Marion Matthias better yet instead of having the Federal as your land lord save every penny and put a down payment on a HUD HOME. My parents did and it was the best thing they ever did.
Sure, send in the police to provide protection. Soon you'll be on the streets protesting the police's heavy-handedness and 'brutality'. Can't have it both ways.
Martin Luther King spoke about the deplorable conditions of black tenants living in Chicago during his visit there. Separately, He also said in an interview: White America must see, that no other ethnic group has been a slave on American soil. That is one thing that other immigrant groups haven’t had to face. The other thing is that the color, became a stigma. American society made the Negroes color a stigma. America freed the slaves in 1863, through the Emancipation Proclamation of Abraham Lincoln, but gave the slaves no land, and nothing in reality. And as a matter of fact, to get started on. At the same time, America was giving away, millions of acres of land in the west and the Midwest. Which meant that there was a willingness to give the white peasants from Europe an economic base, and yet it refused to give its black peasants from Africa, who came here involuntarily in chains and had worked free for two hundred and forty-four years, any kind of economic base. And so emancipation for the Negro was really freedom to hunger. It was freedom to the winds and rains of Heaven. It was freedom without food to eat or land to cultivate and therefore was freedom and famine at the same time. And when white Americans tell the Negro to “lift himself by his own bootstraps”, they don’t oh, they don’t look over the legacy of slavery and segregation. I believe we ought to do all we can and seek to lift ourselves by our own boot straps, but it’s a cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps. And many Negroes by the thousands and millions have been left bootless as a result of all of these years of Oppression and as a result of a society that deliberately made his color a stigma and something worthless and degrading. 1966 Housing March in Chicago - Martin Luther King ruclips.net/video/N4okH6oh2s0/видео.html MLK talks new phase in civil rights struggle ruclips.net/video/2xsbt3a7K-8/видео.html
Segregation in housing is the way you can accomplish segregation in every aspect of life. Housing segregation means that certain jobs are located in certain communities, that certain grocery stores are located in certain communities; it determines where parks are located, if streets are repaired, if toxic dump sites are built nearby. Segregation accomplishes so many other inequalities because you effectively contain a population to a geographic area and suddenly all the other civil rights law don’t matter. We don’t have to discriminate if we’re living in totally segregated neighborhoods; all the work is already done. If you look at the history of civil rights legislation, it’s the Fair Housing laws that get passed last - and barely so. Dr. King had to get assassinated in order for it to get passed, and that was because it was considered the Northern civil rights bill. It was civil rights made personal; it was determining who would live next door to you and therefore who would be able to share the resources that you received. The same is true of school desegregation. Education and housing are the two most intimate areas of American life, and they’re the areas where we’ve made the least progress. And we believe that schools are the primary driver of opportunity, and white children have benefited from an unequal system. And why is this so? Why have white people allowed this? Because it benefited them to have it that way.
Separated by Design: How Some of America’s Richest Towns Fight Affordable Housing In southwest Connecticut, the gap between rich and poor is wider than anywhere else in the country. Invisible walls created by local zoning boards and the state government block affordable housing and, by extension, the people who need it. www.propublica.org/article/how-some-of-americas-richest-towns-fight-affordable-housing Once Again, Segregation in housing is the way you can accomplish segregation in every aspect of life. Housing segregation means that certain jobs are located in certain communities, that certain grocery stores are located in certain communities; it determines where parks are located, if streets are repaired, if toxic dump sites are built nearby. Segregation accomplishes so many other inequalities because you effectively contain a population to a geographic area and suddenly all the other civil rights law don’t matter. We don’t have to discriminate if we’re living in totally segregated neighborhoods; all the work is already done.
For an Irish prospective listen to the song Life in a Tenement Square by Flogging Molly. It’s about Dave King’s childhood living in public housing in Ireland.
Thanks for the playlist recommendation! I'm always looking to find out more about a certain episode topic from a global perspective. Thanks for watching!
Housing, homelessness, any topic that has a real answer does not matter anymore. America hits economic peak in the late 90s and its been downhill since. I love america. But our leaders are greedy like they hit the lottery. They change as soon as they see the dollar sign and usually the truth, proof of science, and sacrifice is sold for the $$.
The macro-opinion of public housing is that it is all horrible. The micro-opinion expressed by people who have lived in public housing units is often very different. When I attended a conference in Atlanta in the 1990s, the woman who picked me up at the airport, an African-American who was a professional well-off person, pointed out the public housing building she grew up in, and I expected a "thank god I made it out of that hellhole" statement. But she shared very fond memories of living there, just like I do about the middle-income suburban home in which I grew up. She was completely cheerful reminiscing about her apartment. You have to meet individual persons speaking on their own terms to understand an issue that is so overgeneralized.
I lived in a project for 5 years, from the ages of 14-19. Moved out almost 16 years ago. I had a neighbor who we think was running a daycare center out of her apartment, we had another neighbor who might have had a hot box on his TV. I read stories about people running drug factories out of their apartments, brothels, etc.
Great video! Question: What role do real estate developers play in determining how much public housing there will be, where it will be located, and what incomes are considered low-income? Thank you!!
From what I read in researching this episode, the answer to this question has evolved over time. Many of the cases cited in the episode were high rise apartments that are owned and operated by government agencies. But if there are affordable or subsidized apartments within a private building, then that number could be determined by housing agencies and real estate developers. Eligibility for housing programs is determined by things like household income, and number of family members in the household (although many programs now have waitlists, since there are more eligible families than available properties).Thanks for watching!
I’m working on the bones of a foundation that may help homeless people get a roof over their heads, a safe place that they don’t have to worry about disappearing while they get things in order. We’d want to help provide clothes for daily use but also interviews and work, classes for keeping a budget and cooking, even parenting. We’d also try to get help for people with mental illness or addiction. We’d want funding for kids for holidays and birthdays, but also celebrate birthdays of adult members; just because they aren’t kids doesn’t make us any less happy they’re around and fighting and they deserve to have that highlighted. It’s a pretty huge operation we’re contemplating and we still have no idea how to put it all together to make it work. But... it’s something that’s needed. There are organizations doing good work, yes, but they need help. I’ve been trying to sort of isolate all the different reasons and ways people can fall into homelessness. Being pushed out of affordable housing is just one way. The more we understand the causes, the better we’ll be prepared to try to start fixing some of this.
My lil town got rid of both projects. People were scared to live outside of one. Because for most of them its generational and they dont want to break the cycle. I fought project b's everyday growing up because they were jealous I didnt live in one.
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This always continues to be a problem, those people really need proper jobs and can't remain in those public housing forever. It is supposed to be a temporary housing to help people out of poverty, not just people stay there for good. Yet another part of the numerous welfare programs in the US that continue to add to the national debt without actually providing the needed benefit to those in need of such housing and enable this program to reduce the amount of homeless people sleeping on the streets.
Went to the shelter with my mom in 5th grade and all the private housing was to expensive so we ending up in poli ground in new york. I got jumped and every year teenagers were dying. I say this help for the short term but long term it ended up messing the family up. My mom started to make more money and being that the public housing in nyc is base on income we ended up paying over 1300 a month for a 2 bed room. Riddle with violence and drug abuse. Cheaper than most places in harlem but paying that much for what you got wasn't worth it.
I always believed that the reasoning for so much public housing within the U.S.A. was partly to denied certain minorities from owning private land and making it easy for wealthier Caucasian the chance to own land and ➗ leftover land to others to profit from the disadvantages among the impoverished population here in America . Sincerely Yours Mr.Cottrell 😊.
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This is the sanitized version of what really happened in America in respect to public housing. Urban renewal sometimes refered as "Negro" renewal wiped out many prosperous African American communities as well mob violence. The government ensured white people would get loans and buy nice houses in the suburbs and own property while alot of poor black people would be packed in projects like sardines .In the early twentieth century up to the late 60's "white "America made sure that marketable housing stayed with"white folks".
I didn't mind living in the projects the people were good but my unit had mice like crazy! They would never do anything about it! Just told me to set up traps!🙄
Public housing has been a saving grace for me. I'm on a fixed income and it would not be possible to survive and live independently in NYC. I believe that we should create more public housing. The only thing i would add is that existing buildings be incorporated into the mix. This way, it c as n blend more easily into neighborhoods of mixed incomes. I have never been a big fan of those mega structures that encompass entire blocks.
Gladys Rodriguez I remember listening to music with friends outside of the Marlboro houses in Brooklyn, New York City. We had so much fun!!! Hope you are doing ok since the last six months has been so terrible with the Corona Virus.
Public Housing was made available to soldiers returning home from WWII so they can afford a home for their family. At first they lived in Quonset huts which resembled half a tin can which were old barracks from army bases. Such as a base was in Canarse Brooklyn. These soldiers were on a waiting list to be moved to newly built Public Housing such as Pomonok Houses in Flushing Queens. Regarding Public Housing often they were destroyed by the tenants themselves with uncivilized tenants breaking windows, setting fires, graffiti, not cleaning their own apartments , destroying fixtures, creating floods while other projects like Pomonok the tenants respected the property, were grateful for the opportunity to live in affordable housing and kept it clean without damaging the apartment.
@Fuert Neigt I looked her up. This is the information that I got from www.afam.northwestern.edu: She is a postdoctoral fellow on the faculty of Northwestern University, currently teaching: - Introduction to African American Studies - Race and Literature in 19th Century America. Her curriculum vitae is: Ph.D., African American Studies and American Studies, Yale University B.A., English and Theatre Arts, University of Pennsylvania So, it seems that in addition to her winning, onscreen personality, that she's also a college professor, with the smartiac brains! You GO girl!!!
Public housing is not just in inner cities. In rural areas they have them but they don't look anything like you would see in say New Orleans. Public housing was a bandaid on a serious wound. A lot of people who live there it's a economical problem in the area they live in. Lack of jobs that actually pay a decent wage
In Virginia most of our projects are townhomes with but they not glamorous they run down not took care of. Police be out there but the drugs be more soo in the regular neighborhoods. Infact there is no trap house in the PJs you might got dealers but trap house is a house outside the PJs.
I lived in public housing aka the projects . Idk wasn't bad . The apartment was kept up to current standards but the playground was never re built n the school system sucked. On top of that, the projects were right next to a water plant which meant it stunk a lot. And there was no ac so we had to buy in windows ac n the heat didn't always work so we had to buy portable heaters. The projects were also very far away from everything n I'm sure that wasn't done on purpose.
Excellent coverage of the subject! The lesson, as it appears to me, is that degradation of communal housing is inevitable. Whether evil slum lords or wellmeaning but incompetent governments own the buildings, communal housing will ultimately fall apart. Here is why : private property is the greatest invention in history - and the lack of ownership by the inhabitants prevents them from feeling like empowered owners with a stake in the resale value of the property. With no stake in the resale outcome, they invest no effort in constant maintenance. If you look at people living in homes handed down to them, which they don't intend to sell for a later profit, you see far less attention to fixing everything that goes wrong - instead, people just "get used to" the house as it is, without fixing things - my own relatives are proof of this. The solution to the slum problem may be to force people to seeke the house back to you and move somewhere else on a periodic basis. Of course lots of help would have to be provided to people to make sure that those needing assistance just to get through the month in their own lives didn't get screwed. But at least it is an idea worth trying. The old, the handicapped will need more attention of course. OR, we could just keep whining about the problem for the rest of eternity...
HUD should set up a system where the local city administration puts all the project units up for sale, giving priority to the current occupants to purchase them below market value. Set up a co-operative with board of directors until there are enough new owners to fill the spots. That would free up millions to do restoration work. The new owners will then have equity and eventually get off welfare so that would save billions. They could then sell their apartments if they choose, and increase value to the neighborhood, creating a new working class.
Many years ago when I was a teenager, I visited a girl in the projects who did hair in her apt. After she’d done my hair, I walked to the corner store to get some snacks while I waited for my big brother to come pick me up. On my way back from the store, a boy about my age ran by me causing my red hots to fall on the ground. Before I could complain, 2 other boys about my age ran by chasing the other guy. Both of those guys had guns. I watched until they were out of sight. They ran around a corner when I heard the first of many gunshots ring out. Many days later, I learned that one of the young men had been unalived. That’s what I think about when I hear about housing projects. It was a living hell on earth for the residents. Never can forget that day. I don’t care what they tell you or how cool they try to made it sound, many of these housing projects from back in the day were just terrible. Period.
Neck of the Woods Updated off the top of my head, I think: Harbor Road, Kirkwood, Oakdale, Sunnydale (largest in SF), Potrero Hill, Alemany, Double Rock, Navy, Kiska, Westside, Holly Courts, Ying Puen (Chinatown projects, last project towers in SF), and a few more I don't know the technical names of lol.
Neck of the Woods Updated you can see some of the old ones with before/after remodel pics here: ruclips.net/video/KOrdsf2NInA/видео.html I'm from Hayes Valley
Hey Everyone! I'll be here answering questions for the next hour so leave me a comment!!
-Danielle
US housing investment firm Blackstone is set to enter the social housing sector in Britain.
The company is the largest residential landlord in the US through its subsidiary Invitation Homes.
It is a predatory investment group worth almost £300 billion.
It sucked up huge amounts of property across the US and Europe in the fallout from the economic crisis which began in 2007.
Blackstone CEO Stephen Schwarzman is a friend of right wingers Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump, daughter of Donald Trump.
Origin Of Everything I have a question what’s the origin of the US dollar 💵 maybe a future video?
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Please do a video about the difference between public housing and subsidised rent a.k.a Section 8.
Who does your hair?
Shoutout to everyone that made it out of the projects.
Facts lol me and my family was in the system till I was 22
@@cristianvelasquez9667 glad you made it out.
I made it out but i always go back to chill with my ninjas
@@mitchellaimss1924 I don't. I'm light skinned, and dudes didn't like me then. I came back after I got out, and I could smell some bullshit cooking. Pyeerwwn!
@@richw.6296 Then they was never ya ninjas from the jump
I grew up in the projects in the Lower East Side, Manhattan. It was interesting to hear about Jacob Riis since one of the projects in L.E.S. is named after him. My old neighborhood has changed significantly from the time I was there. There are fancy shops and cafes that would have never been there 20 years ago. It’d be interesting to learn about gentrification.
shirleyncesar I grew up in those projects & it would be interesting to hear about gentrification
I live in Birmingham, Alabama and this is happiness my city right now.
Most of nyc has changed in that way. Especially in Manhattan/Brooklyn.
U know how gentrification came to be...it all started with housing discrimination after Jim crow
Awww you are my Neighbor .I’m from LES 2 .East Houston between Ave B & C. Not the project but, im 3 blocks away.
You're the Bill Nye the Science Guy of societal issues... Danielle the Social Studies Belle
Ha! I should consider putting that on a t-shirt lol. Thanks for watching!
@@pbsorigins mention it in a vid if you do, so I know to buy one 😁
Bill nye is no scientist lol.
Better than Nye.
Eli Godfrey bill nye 💯 FRAUD do your research don’t compare her with that FRAUD LIAR
Most of the public housing you'll find in the Houston area is recently constructed three story buildings in a tight cluster near centers of employment in suburban areas. They are built by private companies relying on the federal subsidy to make their revenue stable enough to justify the capital outlay. Until you know what to look for, you cannot tell the difference between these micro-projects and the high end apartments at the next intersection.
They have been doing the same in some parts of the Bronx when i lived there and here in Milwaukee as well
@Win Yeah, they're kinda slumlords. But the building standards are better than non sec 8 housing.
If you can't tell the difference between the public housing and high end apartments, just wait a few years! The residents of Public housing who pay pennies per month will screw it up before long, just like they always do! People who are given free stuff have no respect for things like owners do! No one who is able bodied should be able to live off anyone else who pays taxes!
Can we get "the origin of home owners associations"?
European immigrants
1939 Germany
I don’t know why they are even a thing. They are a bad idea in my opinion.
Aleyda P.R. Racism.
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I love your videos, they're always so informative and easy to digest! Very well presented
Thanks a bunch! We love making them :)
I've got an idea idea. How about housing projects for single people who are economically disadvantaged? I'm trying to live in New York City but can't find any studios for under 4000 per month!!!!
Hmmm that could be a good topic for a second episode on this topic?? If you're interested in seeing more info on the demographics of households living in public housing, be sure to check out the articles and links in the works cited. Thanks for commenting!
$4000 a month!?!????? OMG How is that even legal? How are landlords allowed to set that figure?
What neighborhood are you looking at because there are plenty of studios for under 4000
Come to Louisville to live! You can find homes for about $700.00 a month for a mortgage or about that or a little less for rent. There are places which allow pets as well. I own a condo for about $750.00 a month 30-year mortgage. I have 1000 sq. ft., 2 br, 2 bath, like a nice, comfortable, little house.
We have also a lower cost of living here and plenty of culture, art, music, STEM, and more tucked into our nooks and crannies.
We have public transportation as buses (no rail yet), and Lyft and Uber are here as well along with Yellow and other "color" cab service.
Having a car here comes in handy if you don't want to walk; some bus routes can have sparse stops at some parts.
We have some food deserts (limited groceries), but for the most part, we have good coverage of necessary businesses.
I'd set my city of Louisville, KY up against New York any day!
And our park system was created by the same person who created Central Park: Frederick Law Olmstead.
Pop down for a spell and visit!
@@coleencaviness5957 Upper West Side, Manhattan.
A lot of people here in Northern Illinois see the increase in crime in the suburbs and beyond as the aftermath of Cabrini Green. I've never lived in a housing project, so I wouldn't know. When I was very young, the local housing project was a long rambling structure across from the doorknob factory. Nobody called it a "project" then, just "the appartments". People would move in from one of the larger housing projects in Chicago, find a job at the factory, and eventually move to a small house or an apartment in a privately-owned complex nearby (both were abundant and affordable). This system worked pretty well for about 10 years in the 80s and 90s. Then, just as Cabrini Green was closing entirely, the doorknob factory started laying off workers and moving production to Mexico. Several of the privately-owned complexes fell into disrepair and were condemned around that time. All in all a perfect storm. The area is quite run-down and dangerous now. I wouldn't know exactly why, as I've never had the chance to talk with anyone who witnessed the transition from inside the project. It seems we lost a vital stepping stone when factory jobs went overseas.
Corporations move jobs overseas to save more money for their shareholders, then blame the poor for not having a job. Or blame the poor for taking a "bad" job they "should have known can't support a family". Don't forget to blame the poor for "crime" and "drug gangs" when there are no "support a family" paying jobs around.
The rich get richer, the poor get blamed (and poorer). Sounds like the USA, yup.
Living in those buildings like that was a hell hole😞🤦🏾♀️ it gave me anxiety ptsd depression it was sad living in those buildings
Yeh they are bad
The projects were designed for short term living. The people in charge were too lazy to enforce the rules and conditions of living in the housing units. This meant you have to hold a job in order to qualify and live there. Market housing enforces the same rules. Things were better when the projects only allowed married families. Market value apartment complexes back in the day only allowed adults without children. This wasn't a bad idea because kids cry and make noise all day. The standards were lowered. Anybody and everyone with a pulse moved in.
@R W Some people have a lack of understanding. A full explanation is needed.
public housing is cancer they should knock them all down. cant afford to live in a normal house? move in with family.
@@nicecutie well in Singapore they have the best public housing and speaking of living with family? Theres an 80% chance the family itself lives in public housing
I must admit: my knowledge of projects is mostly shaped by sitcoms like 'Good Times' and 'The PJs'. I am not proud of this fact.
Mike Kaltman lmao same
At least u admit it
Public housing started off well. But, all across the country they started to take away tax funds, for maintaining and repairs.
You should move there.
Damn.
you could rename the show to Crash Course: Everything You Wanted To Know About But Never Thought of To Ask
To bad racist ppl are black now.
@@JohnDoe-jn4ex staring into those white lies I mean lights for a longtime have you bub.
@@anotherone6939 STFU
@@anotherone6939 yup
Some of the comments remind me how lucky I am to live where I do. This public housing location is newer (2012), has central air & dishwasher, regular maintenance, and should something go wrong, the maintenance crew are here within an hour or two. Unless they need to special order a part or something.
I also feel kinda depressed about living where I do though. I'm on disability (SSDI) and unable to work, so I'm more than likely going to be stuck here for the rest of my life. Don't get me wrong, I am grateful, but man it sucks when you know you aren't ever going to own a home and be more than a foot away from neighbors.
I know how you feel. I live in an apartment and i know i might never own a home thanks to high interest rates and because of how expensive they are. But i don't mind living in an apartment though.
You guys aren't missing anything. I own my home, which is very affordable. As a young child my family received a project apartment after being homeless. I moved out of NYC & worked myself into home ownership. After 20yrs of working I've become disabled. I have to mow my own yard, make my own improvement(thanks to RUclips). I worry about things breaking, stove, frig, air conditiner.
Even though I enjoy my home tremendously. I worry about the upkeep.
The upside is I can afford my mortgage & I can sell for a profit.
It's not worth the grief though.
You got it made! Where i live, ppl pee in elevators, throw trash out the window 24/7, break the lobby doors bc they are too cheap to buy a $25 key, the single parent mothers allow their kids to destroy the neighborhoods with crime, loitering, smoking weed in hallways etc. You should be happy if this is the opposite of where you live! Add shooting & more which they do not have outside of nycha pretty much, then maybe you'd appreciate what you have!
Norcal x14 did you know you could transfer your housing to another state or area. Do some research on this. They have better Housing Authorities in different areas.
Norcal x14 funny thing is MAJORITY of crime is done by ADULTS not the CHILDREN of single mothers! #DUMMY
Very enlightening work, as always. This topic, and affordable housing in general, are two things that highly interest me.
Just wanted to say that I appreciate that this video is politically neutral. The presenter, Danielle, is not laying blame on any political party regarding the state of public housing. It's just the facts as they are. That's very rare to see nowadays.
its not necessarily neutral just the basics.Agendas aren't mentioned because its not that kind of show
The blame is a bi-partisan affair.
She just didn't want white people getting mad at the facts
@@caseyclemons8368 they are in denial about the facts
@shinvergil777 and the Jews didn't get anything in a innocent way they were involved in the slave trade u dummy
I appreciate how you tackle tough issues without any judgement. You just explain the facts, and the different points of view to be considered. That is monumental in 2021! Please keep it up!
I live in Mississippi.
We have public housing everywhere out here.
I'm really surprised about that 2 Million number.
I figured it would be much bigger.
Steve Taylor that makes no sense, Mississippi got the cheapest housing in the country I thought public housing was for expensive cities
Trolololololololololololololololololololololol wages are trash in small citys
2 million is a lot, but I thought the number was bigger too.
The projects acronym for People Raised On Just Enough Cash To Survive
Woah!, good one👍
Thank you for being bipartisan on this subject. The way your able clearly explain this subject. What I mean by “clearly” is the fact you never use the words like, you know and basically countless times. I truly hope this channel continues with you as the host.
I've never subscribed so fast to a channel in my life. Keep up the great work, girl!
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When I was in my early 20s I lived in a type of big city public housing called an "SRO." It was in an old building that may have once been a nice hotel but that had lost all sentiments of luxury. The elevator was a gold thing like a bird cage, with that old hard type of plastic that isn't even used today.
The room it's self was small, dirty, infested with mice and roaches, but boy did it beat sleeping on the pavement outside. I appreciated that place, it was truly my home, my first home that didn't belong to my parents and it felt absolutely luxurious by comparison.
I have learned that recently that same hotel building has been sold and gutted and rebuilt and looks amazing! It was rebuilt for the purpose of public housing and I can only imagine the gratitude of those who will be residing in it in its completion.
I've worked near a few of the projects in LA and Baltimore. Sad state of affairs. Everyone wants to get out but there's nowhere to go. People who live in the suburban bubble assume that if project residents would just go to college and then get a good job, the problem is solved. Easy to say when you don't know what it's like to have to ask permission to cross certain intersections in order avoid being murdered. There has to be a top down restructuring of these neighborhoods or it will always be the same old story. Unfortunately that costs money, and the people who have it aren't willing to spend it. At least not on proactive measures. Totally fine paying for more prisons, ER rooms, and enormous police forces. But investing in an actual solution? Forget it.
Well said, and thank you.
1 million percent correct!!!
It’s a similar situation here in the U.K. State overseen social engineering at its worst. The elite and the Establishment have absolutely no interest in a genuinely more equitable and socially mobile society, they never really have and they never really will.
BS, I am an immigrant and did live in what is considered a bad neighborhood. I lived with my mom only who worked live-in 5 days a week so I saw her only 2 days a week. I dropped out of school and went to work early - 16. Did hook up with bad people, but after a while went back to night school as I was working, went to college. Did not finish college, but found a job and started from the bottom and eventually worked my way towards the top in big corp. So it is very possible. The place where I grew up at had $10 hoes and crack being sold like bubble gum. So yeah it is possible, however it is not easy! Why does said neighborhood becomes bad, why does one person succeeds where the other ones fail coming from the PJs? These are the questions that need to be asked and not "oh I grew up poor and in bad place so I came up wrong and this is why I am where I am"! There always will be poor people and rich people and wealthier people will get better education, etc... It does give a better recipe for success but it is not "100%". Not trying to romanticize things but I think PJs are not the culprit - they were meant to help low income people to get to better pastures.
@@bearwooden660 The difference is that as a white guy who grew up in the middle class suburbs, I only had to put in average effort to have a pretty exceptional life. The people who make it out of the projects have to put in an exceptional effort just to have a pretty average life. People who put in an exceptional effort are rare. No matter what the socioeconomic status. Most of us phone it in. If you phone it in living in Bel Air, you will grow up rich. If you phone it in living in Wichita Falls, you will probably have a decent job that pays the bills. If you phone it in living in the projects, you will probably die in the projects.
Lived there for 4 years can say I gotten better jobs( all on my own) they had no programs for us, it wasn’t anything that at least tried to push more people into or back into the work field. It was a dog eat dog living, violence and junkies everywhere, the people walk around like zombies. If I would’ve stayed any longer I would’ve still be asleep like those people. I’m not better I just want better & I know living in that condition wouldn’t get me there. It was a stepping stone. Glad I made it out & good luck to the people that want too make it out of there but I learned the hard way everybody don’t.
Thanks for educating the miss informed. It's amazing how some ppl grew up in public housing but don't know the history behind it. Love your channel 💞💞💞
I lived in public housing for 12 years and let me tell you it's horrible. I was Grateful for having a place to stay when I was down and out, I was a teen mother and needed a hand up. I worked hard and can say I'm glad I got my shit together, went to college and was able move out.
During my time living there I had my unit broke into, my car was vandalized and people got shot and beat up in front of me. I never let my child go out because she would have to fight all the time for stupid reasons, like she had nice clothes 😒
There are some good families, hardworking people who live there as well, but can not afford to leave due to high prices for rent and not having a high paying job to allow them to more to a safer area.
The manger and staff in the office don't really care about tenants, all they want you to do is" pay your rent and be grateful because people would love to live in your unit", as told to me by the annual review manager when I complained about rodent infestation.
I wish they would improve the living conditions and make the grounds safer because having cameras posted throughout the community does not helpim much 😑 drugs are still being sold, people are still being killed and gangs hang out all day and night
The atmosphere of the projects I lived in was depressing, many do not want jobs and have been living their for generations, there grandmother, mother, cousins, etc. live there and don't realize it's not safe, that life is supposed to be like that. Project life they say.
Cabrini green housing in Chicago was torn down just as many other housing projects in Chicago and new properties were build not allowing the lesser privileged enough in finances to be able to live a decent life today leaving many homeless. Realtors asking three times a person's income in order to be able to live in a clean safe environment is ludicrous. How about those mandating those rules and regulations try living in the conditions they are implementing on others.
Unfortunately thats how it works in the real world. Debt to income. People won't take financial risk on you if your monthly out vs in is more than around 41-43%.
There are several apartments/homes that wad allocated to low income. But and I say But.... People that paid a lot for their home were mad. One person claim that They and I say They were nasty. Unfortunately, the have and have "Not" is the new form of racism.
The same thing happened in Atlanta years ago after the Olympics with them tearing down Techwood homes which was the first housing project in the United States. No plan was put into place to assist the people that were affected. Of course that contributed to crime within the community because people had that by any means necessary attitude.
@@qadan6000 bro have a look at what happened to each placw after they hold the Olympics,,theres no need for an Olympics if it creates this much problems
No kidding?
Techwood Homes was the first housing project to officially open in Atlanta. Atlanta is the first city to tear all of its housing projects down too.
Public housing structures were originally designed to help low income Caucasian families until think tanks discovered that massive overcrowding led to what ethologist John B. Calhoun coined as behavioral sink which describes how societies collapse due to increased population density and lack of funding.
And then a light bulb went off, I'm sure somebody came with the idea let's use it for Black People to easily railroaded them in the justice system. Mmmmmmmmm
kadive25nyc yeah thats exactly what happened. People who want to get out and do better DO IT, people who want to live off the govt. have 6 kids and not improve, nothing will
@@aceburgers8801 it's funny how people always used that to prove a point but never point out these people mental health conditions. I grow up In the pjs and I saw plenty people move out and did good for themselves and others lived in a harsh environment and most never had a childhood or lact of educate due to this country fuc up policy that held people back...you seen the movie when they see us, shit like that happens everywhere..
kadive25nyc I agree this country has some fucked up policies etc. And mental health is a big factor. Both my parents grew up in projects in east boston. They worked and got out. I know some environments are harsher than others. I wish i had all the answers
Shut up.
Well done! Beautifully narrated, my nerd nodes are vibrating with excitement! More please!
I was glad to see that while I was living in public housing, my city of Louisville (KY) created a program: Move to Work. It was not a burden on public housing or Section 8 residents but a ( state, I think) government program to tear down old public housing buildings while also raising new mixed - income buildings with prior public housing tenants having first choice whether to live there or not and where.
I don't know if it was a one - to - one correspondence between established and replacement residences, though.
Another thing they do is similar to the FHA loan in that HUD provides a subsidy to public housing and Section 8 participants while requiring them to provide income and asset information, attend homeowning classes, and instruction on how to figure how much house you can buy with your income. These participants pay the same as they have (30%) of income) and receive 70% help from the government to cover 70% of mortgage and utilities together up to 30 years or until 30% of their income is greater than the assistance given. If income drops again within the 30 year period, the program picks up the subsidy as before, till the end of the 30 years, which is how much a common mortgage lasts.
They require household participants to be disabled, or going to school, or working if 18 or older.
Personally, I think the requirements are fair, and the benefits are large, and not just in subsidy. It allows a person the dignity of shopping for a home they want in a place where they want, with their only limit based on their public housing payment. Both of these are good programs in my city as is the help from Medicaid, CHIP, SNAP, and WIC.
I would put my state (KY) family assistance programs up against the administration of any other state's programs.
omg I love your charisma and spark. Makes it so easy to absorb information. I also love your hair xD
I'm a white guy, so caveats - I normally am not a fan of dreads _or_ colored hair, but the combo really works for Danielle!
boo yah those are not dreads. Those are braids which is very different than dreads.
I lived in Baruch Projects on Houston St, NYC.
It was the 70s.
I came out alright.....retired Veteran and 3 College degrees.
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My Wife is in the military, year 19...currently at FE Warren, Wyoming.
I love your vids, so informative and well researched/cited. I agree with the tshirt idea.
I have my own home thanks to a HUD program from the nineties called Urban Homesteading, I was very lucky to get into the program and to buy a house, I've been here almost thirty years and the mortgage is paid off; never would have had my own home otherwise.
I wish they would bring that program back
There probably needs to be a long documentary about housing projects.
I'm sure there is one somewhere.
there is one,,but it focuses on one project instead of multiple
This subject should be taught in our public schools system to today's children. So when they do graduate 🎓 from high school 🏫 they can be prepared for the future in the U.S.A.
9:25 Not anymore, in NYC we have Luxury high rise residential buildings next to Public housing. And it's a separate world that doesn't spill into each other. It's weird. I'm a realtor and lived in Manhattan
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INTERESTING...I SEE MANY LUXURY HIGH RISER BEING BUILT IN THE GHETTO...IT FREAKS ME OUT THAT PEOPLE MANY INVESTING IN THESE NEIGHBORHOODS...
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Your videos are so informative. Every one is a short concise explanation that is a starting point for deeper investigations. Thank you.
I’ve learned a bit on public housing in Singapore & found it interesting. There it isn’t just for the poor, majority of the people have it. Imagine if we inserted a profitless, public option to housing to add supply to affordable housing for working & middle class. What effect would that have?
Not for profit, or profitless as you call it, is code language for tax avoidance, it would not really fix anything, just like many hospitals claim to be not for profit and they still end up making millions out of everyone, with the exception that they now don't pay taxes
@@thomasjust2663 I think the point is that it would be PUBLIC housing, AKA not privately owned. Hence no taxes to begin with because the government is the one supplying the "profitless" housing. I think the only way that really works though would be through rent to own programs, as consistent rent, however low, would end up turning profit in time
Hi i am from singapore, we do need to pay monthly water and electricity bills regardless from public and private housing.
Sis I know you didn’t choose the content but the projects were initially built for yt families, yt flight is what made the projects accessible to non yt. Black were also excluded from the homestead act and the new deal. Please read the colors of law it details the f*&+ery and policies.
Thank You 👏👏👏👏 I was waiting for her to mention this part of the histort of Public Housing.
What does yt stand for?
@@deelowCali looks like shorthand for "white". 🙏💞💞💞💞
@@tressie3998 oh im dumb dumb 😂😂😂 thank you
That's true to a degree, but it wasn't the case with all projects. For example, some of the most notorious projects in East Oakland were only for white people when they were first built, and they fit your description perfectly. However, West Oakland was the part of the city designated for blacks when they first came to Oakland, and they had plenty of projects built for them on that side of the city as well. So the projects were actually for all races at first, though they were segregated.
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From my observation in NYC, the problem with public housing is that they typically crowd a bunch of people into one area - a high density population of poor, often poorly educated, and sometimes desperate people. Then they put these projects in the poorest neighborhoods they can get (because the rich don't want them nearby) creating few local opportunities for work or improvement. Then everyone wonders why there is a lot of violence and lack of hope.
If it were up to me, I'd make these developments significantly smaller and spread them out all over the communities, or even just rent local units from within the community rather than build/manage actual buildings. This would allow enrollment into better schools and have local business/work opportunities for the residents.
i know its controversial but i think we should build something along the lines of the old workhouses. You can stay for free if you have a full time job and if you dont have one then the government should provide you with a job that both covers your rent, food, and utilities but also provides you with a salary and they help you find a real job. My dad had something like that when he was a runaway kid, they had him working in public parks in return for housing and food (he doesnt remember the name of the program, they just called it The Corps). That would help ease people into full time employment, give them skills, provide references, and show future employeers that the people in public housing are "employable". It doesnt need to necesarily need to be back breaking work, they should provide a variety of types of work, and the new workhouses shouldnt replace public housing, just supplement them.
All jokes aside. I don't want to live next to any poor people.
dodgeplow I know I don’t want to pay what I’m paying in rent working my arse off to afford a decent area to have it filled with people who really shouldn’t be there. There’s already a serious problem in my area with homeless people crowding out public areas and even coffee houses with police and staff unable to remove them for political reasons. Needless to say, there’s been a huge spike in violent crime, filth, muggings, drug paraphernalia littered in playgrounds, and all that.
Sorry, but it’s just not right.
@@r.d.9399 you act like poor people or people in general wanna be around you I'm sure the dog woudnt even like you
@@frankySR21And your homeless probably only gonna get worst if you don't do anything about it people are just gonna start covering sidewalks with bodies if you just assume making them move is gonna solve your problem it's not peope are gonna continue losing homes apartments ect
i wish our building had proper security
Marion Matthias better yet instead of having the Federal as your land lord save every penny and put a down payment on a HUD HOME. My parents did and it was the best thing they ever did.
Sure, send in the police to provide protection. Soon you'll be on the streets protesting the police's heavy-handedness and 'brutality'. Can't have it both ways.
@@MrAustinpen who said police?
@@GOOSEMON2007 I"ll look into it thank you
What kind of security?
Martin Luther King spoke about the deplorable conditions of black tenants living in Chicago during his visit there.
Separately, He also said in an interview:
White America must see, that no other ethnic group has been a slave on American soil. That is one thing that other immigrant groups haven’t had to face.
The other thing is that the color, became a stigma. American society made the Negroes color a stigma. America freed the slaves in 1863, through the Emancipation Proclamation of Abraham Lincoln, but gave the slaves no land, and nothing in reality. And as a matter of fact, to get started on.
At the same time, America was giving away, millions of acres of land in the west and the Midwest. Which meant that there was a willingness to give the white peasants from Europe an economic base, and yet it refused to give its black peasants from Africa, who came here involuntarily in chains and had worked free for two hundred and forty-four years, any kind of economic base.
And so emancipation for the Negro was really freedom to hunger. It was freedom to the winds and rains of Heaven. It was freedom without food to eat or land to cultivate and therefore was freedom and famine at the same time.
And when white Americans tell the Negro to “lift himself by his own bootstraps”, they don’t oh, they don’t look over the legacy of slavery and segregation. I believe we ought to do all we can and seek to lift ourselves by our own boot straps, but it’s a cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps.
And many Negroes by the thousands and millions have been left bootless as a result of all of these years of Oppression and as a result of a society that deliberately made his color a stigma and something worthless and degrading.
1966 Housing March in Chicago - Martin Luther King
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MLK talks new phase in civil rights struggle
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Segregation in housing is the way you can accomplish segregation in every aspect of life. Housing segregation means that certain jobs are located in certain communities, that certain grocery stores are located in certain communities; it determines where parks are located, if streets are repaired, if toxic dump sites are built nearby. Segregation accomplishes so many other inequalities because you effectively contain a population to a geographic area and suddenly all the other civil rights law don’t matter.
We don’t have to discriminate if we’re living in totally segregated neighborhoods; all the work is already done. If you look at the history of civil rights legislation, it’s the Fair Housing laws that get passed last - and barely so. Dr. King had to get assassinated in order for it to get passed, and that was because it was considered the Northern civil rights bill. It was civil rights made personal; it was determining who would live next door to you and therefore who would be able to share the resources that you received. The same is true of school desegregation.
Education and housing are the two most intimate areas of American life, and they’re the areas where we’ve made the least progress. And we believe that schools are the primary driver of opportunity, and white children have benefited from an unequal system. And why is this so? Why have white people allowed this? Because it benefited them to have it that way.
Separated by Design: How Some of America’s Richest Towns Fight Affordable Housing
In southwest Connecticut, the gap between rich and poor is wider than anywhere else in the country. Invisible walls created by local zoning boards and the state government block affordable housing and, by extension, the people who need it.
www.propublica.org/article/how-some-of-americas-richest-towns-fight-affordable-housing
Once Again, Segregation in housing is the way you can accomplish segregation in every aspect of life. Housing segregation means that certain jobs are located in certain communities, that certain grocery stores are located in certain communities; it determines where parks are located, if streets are repaired, if toxic dump sites are built nearby. Segregation accomplishes so many other inequalities because you effectively contain a population to a geographic area and suddenly all the other civil rights law don’t matter.
We don’t have to discriminate if we’re living in totally segregated neighborhoods; all the work is already done.
4:01 that's easily one of the saddest photos i've ever seen. you can see the hopelessness in their eyes.
Growing up in the Public housing all the way into the penitentiary system #trap
For an Irish prospective listen to the song Life in a Tenement Square by Flogging Molly. It’s about Dave King’s childhood living in public housing in Ireland.
Thanks for the playlist recommendation! I'm always looking to find out more about a certain episode topic from a global perspective. Thanks for watching!
Another well- researched and presented video. Thank you!
I watch all of your videos. Thanks for such a quality educational program.
We have more empty homes then people that need them. We could solve the housing crisis overnight if we actually had the will as a society.
Shooting looting and murder makes it the way it is ,go live in one of these houses and why ur nonwhites friends will think ur nuts.
Housing, homelessness, any topic that has a real answer does not matter anymore. America hits economic peak in the late 90s and its been downhill since. I love america. But our leaders are greedy like they hit the lottery. They change as soon as they see the dollar sign and usually the truth, proof of science, and sacrifice is sold for the $$.
The macro-opinion of public housing is that it is all horrible. The micro-opinion expressed by people who have lived in public housing units is often very different. When I attended a conference in Atlanta in the 1990s, the woman who picked me up at the airport, an African-American who was a professional well-off person, pointed out the public housing building she grew up in, and I expected a "thank god I made it out of that hellhole" statement. But she shared very fond memories of living there, just like I do about the middle-income suburban home in which I grew up. She was completely cheerful reminiscing about her apartment. You have to meet individual persons speaking on their own terms to understand an issue that is so overgeneralized.
Wouldn’t have good times without The projects
Or Wu Tang
Or The PJ's
I lived in a project for 5 years, from the ages of 14-19. Moved out almost 16 years ago. I had a neighbor who we think was running a daycare center out of her apartment, we had another neighbor who might have had a hot box on his TV. I read stories about people running drug factories out of their apartments, brothels, etc.
Great video! Question: What role do real estate developers play in determining how much public housing there will be, where it will be located, and what incomes are considered low-income? Thank you!!
From what I read in researching this episode, the answer to this question has evolved over time. Many of the cases cited in the episode were high rise apartments that are owned and operated by government agencies. But if there are affordable or subsidized apartments within a private building, then that number could be determined by housing agencies and real estate developers. Eligibility for housing programs is determined by things like household income, and number of family members in the household (although many programs now have waitlists, since there are more eligible families than available properties).Thanks for watching!
I’m working on the bones of a foundation that may help homeless people get a roof over their heads, a safe place that they don’t have to worry about disappearing while they get things in order. We’d want to help provide clothes for daily use but also interviews and work, classes for keeping a budget and cooking, even parenting. We’d also try to get help for people with mental illness or addiction. We’d want funding for kids for holidays and birthdays, but also celebrate birthdays of adult members; just because they aren’t kids doesn’t make us any less happy they’re around and fighting and they deserve to have that highlighted.
It’s a pretty huge operation we’re contemplating and we still have no idea how to put it all together to make it work. But... it’s something that’s needed. There are organizations doing good work, yes, but they need help. I’ve been trying to sort of isolate all the different reasons and ways people can fall into homelessness. Being pushed out of affordable housing is just one way. The more we understand the causes, the better we’ll be prepared to try to start fixing some of this.
My lil town got rid of both projects. People were scared to live outside of one. Because for most of them its generational and they dont want to break the cycle. I fought project b's everyday growing up because they were jealous I didnt live in one.
Dayum. You beat them up?
Excellent video!!!💯 I'm very impressed by this channel, always great historical information. It only gets better with every episode, the more you know! 👍🏾 Thanks!
Very informative! Thank you and I love your outfit today.
SUBSCRIBED!!!! I like how articulate you are.
This always continues to be a problem, those people really need proper jobs and can't remain in those public housing forever. It is supposed to be a temporary housing to help people out of poverty, not just people stay there for good. Yet another part of the numerous welfare programs in the US that continue to add to the national debt without actually providing the needed benefit to those in need of such housing and enable this program to reduce the amount of homeless people sleeping on the streets.
First and foremost that lady lives in the projects where my aunt lives and its ironic that she is talking about the projects
Went to the shelter with my mom in 5th grade and all the private housing was to expensive so we ending up in poli ground in new york. I got jumped and every year teenagers were dying. I say this help for the short term but long term it ended up messing the family up. My mom started to make more money and being that the public housing in nyc is base on income we ended up paying over 1300 a month for a 2 bed room. Riddle with violence and drug abuse. Cheaper than most places in harlem but paying that much for what you got wasn't worth it.
I always believed that the reasoning for so much public housing within the U.S.A. was partly to denied certain minorities from owning private land and making it easy for wealthier Caucasian the chance to own land and ➗ leftover land to others to profit from the disadvantages among the impoverished population here in America . Sincerely Yours Mr.Cottrell 😊.
Agreed
Still loving the hair with a hint of blue. But Guuuurrrl, you need to have the front re-braided. I want to get braids for the summer but don’t want to sit for 4+ hours to have it done. Might buy a Senegal twist wig instead.
Thanks for the informative videos. Keep up the good work! Love this channel. ❤️
How you explained everything and the whole video has a whole is amazing. Thank you!
The general public is literally always wrong. Things are just too complicated for "general" people understand things not immediately relevant to them.
Can you please teach this to Ben Carson?
Kelly Kerr you act as if he doesn’t already know this and is just ignorant as opposed to evil. Trust me, he’s evil.
This is the sanitized version of what really happened in America in respect to public housing. Urban renewal sometimes refered as "Negro" renewal wiped out many prosperous African American communities as well mob violence. The government ensured white people would get loans and buy nice houses in the suburbs and own property while alot of poor black people would be packed in projects like sardines .In the early twentieth century up to the late 60's "white "America made sure that marketable housing stayed with"white folks".
Notice ! Their are none of these workers that would move In these buildings as them selves. But they paint you a nice picture
There was a lot of information I didn’t know about the PJ’s 💯👍🏿🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲
I didn't mind living in the projects the people were good but my unit had mice like crazy! They would never do anything about it! Just told me to set up traps!🙄
They did nuthing about your mouse prboblem but you didn't mind living their...wtf 🤦🤦🤦🤦🤷
@@georgehudson5019 damn how can you be so dumb and yet work a phone??
Try picking up all those old fried chicken bones off the floor.
Public housing has been a saving grace for me. I'm on a fixed income and it would not be possible to survive and live independently in NYC.
I believe that we should create more public housing. The only thing i would add is that existing buildings be incorporated into the mix. This way, it c as n blend more easily into neighborhoods of mixed incomes. I have never been a big fan of those mega structures that encompass entire blocks.
Moochers, all of them
Gladys Rodriguez I remember listening to music with friends outside of the Marlboro houses in Brooklyn, New York City. We had so much fun!!! Hope you are doing ok since the last six months has been so terrible with the Corona Virus.
@@TonyqTNT all is well. Thank you and I wish you and yours all the best.
Public Housing was made available to soldiers returning home from WWII so they can afford a home for their family. At first they lived in Quonset huts which resembled half a tin can which were old barracks from army bases. Such as a base was in Canarse Brooklyn. These soldiers were on a waiting list to be moved to newly built Public Housing such as Pomonok Houses in Flushing Queens. Regarding Public Housing often they were destroyed by the tenants themselves with uncivilized tenants breaking windows, setting fires, graffiti, not cleaning their own apartments , destroying fixtures, creating floods while other projects like Pomonok the tenants respected the property, were grateful for the opportunity to live in affordable housing and kept it clean without damaging the apartment.
really, Milwaukee had the first projects? thats crazy. I was born here and I didnt know that.
Ya projects for the blacks trailer parks for the whites projects in the city trailer courts in the boonies
Murphy homes, Lexington terrace and flaghouse in Baltimore
Do you also teach at a college or university. If so, what's your discipline?
@Fuert Neigt
I looked her up. This is the information that I got from www.afam.northwestern.edu:
She is a postdoctoral fellow on the faculty of Northwestern University, currently teaching:
- Introduction to African American Studies
- Race and Literature in 19th Century America.
Her curriculum vitae is:
Ph.D., African American Studies and American Studies, Yale University
B.A., English and Theatre Arts, University of Pennsylvania
So, it seems that in addition to her winning, onscreen personality, that she's also a college professor, with the smartiac brains! You GO girl!!!
honestly i love her even more now! a very inspirational and well rounded woman!
Wonderfully articulate sis. Subscribed from London 🙏🏿
Public housing is not just in inner cities. In rural areas they have them but they don't look anything like you would see in say New Orleans. Public housing was a bandaid on a serious wound. A lot of people who live there it's a economical problem in the area they live in. Lack of jobs that actually pay a decent wage
In Virginia most of our projects are townhomes with but they not glamorous they run down not took care of. Police be out there but the drugs be more soo in the regular neighborhoods. Infact there is no trap house in the PJs you might got dealers but trap house is a house outside the PJs.
I wish you were my teacher in high-school or college! Great presenter!
New Subscriber! This was very informative
Great presentation on public housing. New subscriber! Continued Blessings 🙏❤️!
Public housing should be for the homeless, not people who pay 300 a month while getting new cars that cost 1,000 a month.
@Max Hardcore projects were around before any of what your talking about
The narrator is amazing. I truly wish she was my history teacher in high school as well as college.
The history is interesting.
I want this bookshelf. ❤️
I lived in public housing aka the projects . Idk wasn't bad . The apartment was kept up to current standards but the playground was never re built n the school system sucked. On top of that, the projects were right next to a water plant which meant it stunk a lot. And there was no ac so we had to buy in windows ac n the heat didn't always work so we had to buy portable heaters. The projects were also very far away from everything n I'm sure that wasn't done on purpose.
They place projects in undesired areas to isolate people and increase crime and let them kill each other.
Excellent coverage of the subject! The lesson, as it appears to me, is that degradation of communal housing is inevitable. Whether evil slum lords or wellmeaning but incompetent governments own the buildings, communal housing will ultimately fall apart. Here is why : private property is the greatest invention in history - and the lack of ownership by the inhabitants prevents them from feeling like empowered owners with a stake in the resale value of the property. With no stake in the resale outcome, they invest no effort in constant maintenance. If you look at people living in homes handed down to them, which they don't intend to sell for a later profit, you see far less attention to fixing everything that goes wrong - instead, people just "get used to" the house as it is, without fixing things - my own relatives are proof of this. The solution to the slum problem may be to force people to seeke the house back to you and move somewhere else on a periodic basis. Of course lots of help would have to be provided to people to make sure that those needing assistance just to get through the month in their own lives didn't get screwed. But at least it is an idea worth trying. The old, the handicapped will need more attention of course. OR, we could just keep whining about the problem for the rest of eternity...
lol
This was very informative.
HUD should set up a system where the local city administration puts all the project units up for sale, giving priority to the current occupants to purchase them below market value. Set up a co-operative with board of directors until there are enough new owners to fill the spots. That would free up millions to do restoration work. The new owners will then have equity and eventually get off welfare so that would save billions. They could then sell their apartments if they choose, and increase value to the neighborhood, creating a new working class.
Great video! You got a new subscriber
It seems like it's much better to live in a housing project than on the streets.
You left out the role Eugenics plays in the planning of Public Housing.
We made it out‼️Finally, on to the finer things😁
instead of privately owed slums, we have gov't owed slums YEAH!!!!
the jigs love it!
I would love to see an analysis on the longterm impact of red lining within various communities.
Good job young lady. I will subscribe.
Many years ago when I was a teenager, I visited a girl in the projects who did hair in her apt. After she’d done my hair, I walked to the corner store to get some snacks while I waited for my big brother to come pick me up. On my way back from the store, a boy about my age ran by me causing my red hots to fall on the ground. Before I could complain, 2 other boys about my age ran by chasing the other guy. Both of those guys had guns. I watched until they were out of sight. They ran around a corner when I heard the first of many gunshots ring out. Many days later, I learned that one of the young men had been unalived. That’s what I think about when I hear about housing projects. It was a living hell on earth for the residents. Never can forget that day. I don’t care what they tell you or how cool they try to made it sound, many of these housing projects from back in the day were just terrible. Period.
They've nearly torn down all the projects in San Francisco, very few left.
They did that on purpose the cost of living poor people dont live in San Francisco
Stacks Tv there are still a few. The poorest ones still only pay $25 a month to live in the projects too I think.
Moss Linden; Which ones specifically are left? I’m not from San Francisco, Thanks.
Neck of the Woods Updated off the top of my head, I think:
Harbor Road, Kirkwood, Oakdale, Sunnydale (largest in SF), Potrero Hill, Alemany, Double Rock, Navy, Kiska, Westside, Holly Courts, Ying Puen (Chinatown projects, last project towers in SF), and a few more I don't know the technical names of lol.
Neck of the Woods Updated you can see some of the old ones with before/after remodel pics here:
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I'm from Hayes Valley
I need that bookshelf in my life.
NYCHA im from Davidson Houses BX BOROUGH
I would love to watch a video about why even today housing projects, in many areas, tend to be segregated.