Cabrini Green Transformed

Posted by Sheila Redick on March 13, 2006

Chicago's Cabrini Green was one of the nation's most infamous public housing projects, at one time housing as many as 15,000 people.  The entire complex, built over 20 years, covered 72 acres.   Three high rise buildings are being demolished to make way for  the first development on the site, a $500-million, 790-unit project to be called Parkside of Old Town, a mixed income development of rental and for-sale units.   

It is still hard to understand why the Administration proposed ending Hope VI, the program that has made possible the demolition of dilapidated public housing across the nation to be replaced by mixed income housing, an outcome everyone seems to agree makes sense.