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  2. Riverton Houses - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Altgeld Gardens Homes - Wikipedia

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    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 ]

  4. Robert Taylor Homes - Wikipedia

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    Robert Taylor Homes was a public housing project in the Bronzeville neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois from 1962 to 2007. The second largest housing project in the United States, it consisted of 28 virtually identical high-rises, set out in a linear plan for two miles (3 km), with the high-rises regularly configured in a horseshoe shape of three in each block.

  5. Cochran Gardens - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. Controversy erupts over low-income housing plan for trendy ...

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    Some have paid well over $500,000 for homes — even $1 million-plus in instances — while others pay market-rate rents that can exceed $1,800 a month for one-bedroom apartments and $2,400 for ...

  7. Project Lives - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. List of public housing developments in the United States

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    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 ...

  9. Nickerson Gardens - Wikipedia

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    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.