Quote Originally Posted by wolverine View Post
1/4 of the Frances Cabrini Homes were renovated. The CHA decided they would not renovate the remaining buildings.

I took this photo awhile back a year after completed renovations. I was happy to see on a return visit it still looks this good.


As for the remaining buildings those residents were evicted and the homes have been shuttered. HUD approval is currently pending to advance their demolition. Cabrini-Green is technically hyphenated for a reason. "Green Homes" referred to the towers. Frances Cabrini row homes were originally for working Italian immigrants. The area has since been re-named Parkside Oldtown and is mostly market rate....a reason for the swarm of controversy around the development.

Hopefully that clears the confusion. Cabrini Homes were not completely renovated as you state. If you drive through there the windows are plated over and they have fences around them. They just haven't gone anywhere.

At it's peak, there was approximately 15,000 residents living within Cabrini-Green housing. Today's there's around 200 public housing residents in that area.

I should have also mentioned there's been some debate as to whether the buildings should have been used to house nearly all the city's homeless. Despite their abandonment they are still serviceable. While I agree some of it should have been used to solve this problem, I don't believe in concentrated housing for the poor.
Wow, I was at Cabrini several times during the late 80's, early 90's. That's quite an improvement.