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Tensions are rising at the West Side's mixed-income community, Westhaven Park. But are the condo owners in the right? Or do public housing residents actually have skills and resources we just don't consider valid?
Could you survive in a public housing high-rise? Part I
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Mayor Jane Byrne lived in a Cabrini Green low rise apartment for a few months back in the 1980s. She did so to restore public confidence in the Chicago Housing Authority after a series of gang shootings.
Right, I saw that on Ganglands. She didn't really replicate the experience, though, did she? With the added police protection and the psychology of that "real" home key in her pocket.
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