Thorough telling of the story of public housing in St Louis. Opened with high hopes and fanfare in 1954 the massive slum-clearing project was hated by commercial interests, starved for maintenance funds, fell victim to the post-war abandonment of the city for the burbs and ended up blasted into oblivion in 1972. Oh, and it was almost exclusively black.
We were (are) a hateful people crippled by the dogma of selfishness foisted on us by the capitalist few. These people were deliberately victimized by moneyed interests and then blamed for the failure of the project. It's astonishing that many were able to maintain their dignity and pride after such oppression.
This is a sad story that no one cares about.
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