Demolition of Cabrini Green
Final Paper: Cabrini Green Demolition
In the Chicago area, there is a "ghetto" known to everyone as Cabrini Green. Cabrini Green is an area where drug dealers inhabit every street corner, gunshots ring through the night, and crimes are a daily occurrence. It is an area so dangerous that local police have attempted to make new laws for the area alone such as needing to live there to be there. The people of Cabrini Green have grown accustomed to this dangerous life, but still hope for better way of living for their children (Mabrey). To better their lives, the local government of Chicago put a policy of gentrification into effect; to raze the old buildings, and build new upper middle class condos with a reduced rent for the prior residents seems to benefit many, but this is not always the case.
In the article in the Chicago Tribune, Walter Burnett is faced with inner turmoil and conflicts on the issue of gentrification. He has a unique view on the issue, because he grew up in Cabrini yet not as a politician working for the local government. He talks to many of the residents of Cabrini Green who all have different views. Gentrification is suitable for a specific demographic mainly for parents. Parents would like their children to be able to live in a habitable area that is not faced with drugs and violence every hour. The parents are the ones that want to move in order to have a better life not for themselves but for their children.
The parents have grown up in the society of Cabrini-Green and feel that the type of life is not a positive one where a child could succeed and become successful. The parents know of the cycle that they are stuck in and want their children to have better, more opportunities than they had. They want a better life for their children to grow up in, without the risk of dying or falling into the same cycle that they are stuck in. To them, the change would impact not only their lives but their children 's futures. The change would be
In the Chicago area, there is a "ghetto" known to everyone as Cabrini Green. Cabrini Green is an area where drug dealers inhabit every street corner, gunshots ring through the night, and crimes are a daily occurrence. It is an area so dangerous that local police have attempted to make new laws for the area alone such as needing to live there to be there. The people of Cabrini Green have grown accustomed to this dangerous life, but still hope for better way of living for their children (Mabrey). To better their lives, the local government of Chicago put a policy of gentrification into effect; to raze the old buildings, and build new upper middle class condos with a reduced rent for the prior residents seems to benefit many, but this is not always the case.
In the article in the Chicago Tribune, Walter Burnett is faced with inner turmoil and conflicts on the issue of gentrification. He has a unique view on the issue, because he grew up in Cabrini yet not as a politician working for the local government. He talks to many of the residents of Cabrini Green who all have different views. Gentrification is suitable for a specific demographic mainly for parents. Parents would like their children to be able to live in a habitable area that is not faced with drugs and violence every hour. The parents are the ones that want to move in order to have a better life not for themselves but for their children.
The parents have grown up in the society of Cabrini-Green and feel that the type of life is not a positive one where a child could succeed and become successful. The parents know of the cycle that they are stuck in and want their children to have better, more opportunities than they had. They want a better life for their children to grow up in, without the risk of dying or falling into the same cycle that they are stuck in. To them, the change would impact not only their lives but their children 's futures. The change would be
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