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The project was proposed by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company in 1944, [1] and largely served an African American population, [2] in contrast to Met Life's Parkchester in the Bronx (1940), Stuyvesant Town–Peter Cooper Village in Manhattan, Park La Brea in Los Angeles, Parkmerced in San Francisco, and Parkfairfax in Alexandria, Virginia, which were restricted to a whites-only tenancy at ...
One of Worcester's biggest housing complexes, Plumley Village, takes its name from a top executive at State Mutual Life Assurance. The curious label, a company president's name attached to an ...
Cochran Gardens was a public housing complex on the near north side of downtown St. Louis, Missouri. Construction was completed in 1953. [1] The complex was occupied until 2006. [citation needed] It was famous for its residents' innovative form of tenant-led management. In 1976, Cochran Gardens became one of the first U.S. housing projects to ...
Project Lives is a 2015 book whose theme lies at the intersection of photography and urban studies. [1] Edited by George Carrano, Chelsea Davis, and Jonathan Fisher, the book is a collection of photographs depicting life in New York City public housing projects. The editorial team equipped and trained residents to take photos of their community.
Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles Nickerson Gardens is a 1,066-unit public housing apartment complex at 1590 East 114th Street [ 2 ] in Watts, Los Angeles , California . Nickerson Gardens is the largest public housing development in Los Angeles.
New Orleans (See Housing Authority of New Orleans) St. Thomas Projects; Desire Projects; Florida Projects; Magnolia Projects; Melpomene Projects; Calliope Projects; Iberville Projects; St. Bernard Projects; Fischer Projects; Lafitte Projects; DeGaulle Manor; Hammond, Louisiana. Terrace Of Hammond (212 Neighborhood) Cypress Cove (Grace Quaters ...
Altgeld Gardens is a 99% minority public housing community hosting 8,000 community members, 90% of whom are black and 63% of whom are living below the poverty line. [7] There is the highest percentage of people living in poverty and the lowest per capita income in the city. [ 7 ]
The Jeffries Homes, also called the Jeffries Housing Projects, was a public housing project located in Detroit, Michigan, near the Lodge Freeway.It included 13 high-rises and hundreds of row house units, and was named for Detroit Recorder's Court Judge Edward J. Jeffries, Sr., who was also father of Detroit Mayor Edward J. Jeffries, Jr.