The Story of the Failed Chicago Projects | dG1fM1hZQkZ5OWtpSEk
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00:00This is an effort to rebuild people's lives.
00:19They didn't want to live in these, the projects they call them anymore.
00:23They wanted their independence.
00:24They wanted to get on with their lives.
00:26So I knew in the 90s that if I drive down State Street and look on one side of the block,
00:31that life can be better on the other side.
00:34And that's when I knew we had to take it on.
00:57This is off the record, right?
00:58People that were making side deals with owners, you give me these many families,
01:02and I'm going to give you this kind of cut.
01:04Well, we were putting them back into unsafe housing again.
01:15You know, you can't hate the victim for their victimization.
01:18My hatred is for those that do the victimizing.
01:22My name is G-Law. I'm from the 10th church.
01:25I'm going to tell you like this.
01:27It's like you got a fish tank of piranhas, a fish tank of sharks, a fish tank of eels.
01:34Now you want to take a tank of oscars and dump some in each god damn tank.
01:38What the f*** is going to happen?
01:51And I know a lot of people who let these few years, they leave the projects and they get here,
02:02and then they just, they lose themselves.
02:05People, they don't change.
02:08Like I said, they don't know how to adapt.
02:21I think that the experiment of building projects in Chicago was a failure from the first.