Background Information
Cabrini-Green, one of the 11 public-housing high-rises in Chicago, was built in 1958 for Italian immigrants who-who were affected by WWII. This did not work out for the immigrants due to poor living conditions, so they moved out. Soon after, the Cabrini high-rises were transformed and were turned into the Cabrini-Green homes after people built the William Green homes as an add-on to the Frances Cabrini homes. Right after that happened, the Cabrini-Green homes became an extremely segregated place to live, due to the population being predominantly African-American. Most of the population of Cabrini-Green were single mothers, then children. The African-Americans were fine with other people coming in, the problem was that the other people didn’t feel comfortable living with them in Cabrini-Green.
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In the movie 70 Acres in Chicago, some people worry that when Cabrini-Green gets torn down, they won’t find another home for a long time. This part of the movie shows the paranoia of people thinking that they would eventually be homeless. Most of the people who were thinking this did not end up homeless, but some did. Some people who didn’t think this also ended up homeless. Cabrini-Green did not need to be torn down because it left some people homeless. In Ben Austen’s article, “The Towers Came Down, and the Promise of Public Housing Down With It”, he tells the story of a woman named Annie Ricks was one of the last people in Cabrini-Green before she was forced to move out, and when she moved out, she had nowhere else to go, so she slept on the floors of her family’s homes. (Austen, 2018). This shows how this person is now homeless because she was forced to leave her home. Cabrini-Green getting torn down caused the loss of some people’s last
Cabrini-Green, one of the 11 public-housing high-rises in Chicago, was built in 1958 for Italian immigrants who-who were affected by WWII. This did not work out for the immigrants due to poor living conditions, so they moved out. Soon after, the Cabrini high-rises were transformed and were turned into the Cabrini-Green homes after people built the William Green homes as an add-on to the Frances Cabrini homes. Right after that happened, the Cabrini-Green homes became an extremely segregated place to live, due to the population being predominantly African-American. Most of the population of Cabrini-Green were single mothers, then children. The African-Americans were fine with other people coming in, the problem was that the other people didn’t feel comfortable living with them in Cabrini-Green.
The CHA (Chicago Housing Authority) saw …show more content…
In the movie 70 Acres in Chicago, some people worry that when Cabrini-Green gets torn down, they won’t find another home for a long time. This part of the movie shows the paranoia of people thinking that they would eventually be homeless. Most of the people who were thinking this did not end up homeless, but some did. Some people who didn’t think this also ended up homeless. Cabrini-Green did not need to be torn down because it left some people homeless. In Ben Austen’s article, “The Towers Came Down, and the Promise of Public Housing Down With It”, he tells the story of a woman named Annie Ricks was one of the last people in Cabrini-Green before she was forced to move out, and when she moved out, she had nowhere else to go, so she slept on the floors of her family’s homes. (Austen, 2018). This shows how this person is now homeless because she was forced to leave her home. Cabrini-Green getting torn down caused the loss of some people’s last