Row houses, ca. 1975
East Baltimore Documentary Survey Project
Joan Clark Netherwood, photographer
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Avenue D Housing Project on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City, July 1974
Danny Lyon, photographer
Environmental Protection Agency, Project DOCUMERICA
NBC News, July 1970, Cabrini Housing Project (by robatsea2009)
From the July 31, 1970 NBC News broadcast anchored by Chet Huntley & David Brinkley (The Huntley Brinkley Report), a story on problems in Chicago’s Cabrini Housing Project (aka Cabrini-Green).
Cabrini-Green became the notorious symbol of the problems associated public housing in the United States. Built in the 1940s in Chicago’s Near North Side, the high- and mid-rise structures housed up to 15,000 people.
In 1996, the federal government mandated the destruction of 18,000 units of public housing in Chicago (along with tens of thousands of other units nationwide).The last of the buildings in Cabrini–Green was demolished in March 2011.
Dr. Cevera Little’s Home, November 22, 1957
Washington, D.C.
Scurlock Studio, photographers
Scurlock Studio Records, ca. 1905-1994, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Detroit, Michigan. Riot at the Sojourner Truth homes, a new U.S. federal housing project, caused by white neighbors’ attempt to prevent Negro tenants from moving in.
February 1942
Arthur S. Siegel, photographer
Library of Congress, FSA/OWI Collection
