Comparing the old Rainier Vista to the New Rainier Vista and New Holly: It should be called a new kind of segregation return to main page return to previous photos
See all green space and lower density in old Rainier Vista remaining on eastside of Rainier. |
Formerly at Rainier Vista, low income residents had access to their own yards and then a common courtyard where kids and families from all races could commingle. There were community gardens in these courtyards and park benches and picnic tables. Everyone knew each other and had room to socialize and recreate together |
These are the kinds of places many of the former public housing residents are now living in—dense apartment buildings and they are consigned to the peripheries of the development and segregated from more affluent homeowners higher up and with the the views |
Low income segregated here in new projects |
Othello Building: This is part of the New Holly Project where low income will be shuffled off to along main drag |
Placing the poor in cramped and tighter quarters while the more affluent residents get the views and the $500,000 homeowner units—A new kind of segregation |
New Holly (above) looks more like South Chicago's Cabrini Green (below):