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Growing Up in the Robert Taylor Housing Projects


Growing Up in the Robert Taylor Housing Projects

South Side Weekly sat down with a former Robert Taylor Homes resident, Christine Gayles, who experienced this uprooting as a young girl, along with her family.

Stories from Chicago's Iconic Public Housing Units - Voice of Witness

... childhood in Robert Taylor Homes. He speaks of the fourteen years he ... Robert Taylors were built as a housing project very strategically.

Growing Up in the Robert Taylor Homes - South Side Weekly - Reddit

I remember going to White Sox games as a kid and seeing the Robert Taylor Homes on the east side of the Ryan. The buildings had open spaces on ...

Exploring the legacy of Chicago's Robert Taylor Homes with Open ...

... Robert Taylor Homes, a former public housing project on ... ) Mike grew up in Chicago and often spent time with family living in the Homes.

Robert Taylor Homes at Chicago, IL. Built in 1962, It provide ... - Reddit

Robert Taylor Homes at Chicago, IL. Built in 1962, It provide 4,415 homes for unemployed and single-parent low income families. After its ...

Robert Taylor Homes - Wikipedia

Robert Taylor Homes was a public housing project in the Bronzeville neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois from 1962 to 2007.

All Things Chicago - Robert Taylor Homes Year: 1973 Info - Facebook

Robert Taylor Homes Year: 1973 Info: A public housing project in ... I grew up in the CHA projects and I'm so blessed where I come from ...

Home Histories: Robert Taylor Homes - – South Side Weekly

In 1995, Henry Cisneros, secretary of Housing and Urban Development for the Clinton administration, called Bronzeville's Robert Taylor Homes ...

Chicago's Public Housing Disaster | The Robert Taylor Homes

We also touch on the celebrities who grew up in the project and went on to achieve great success. By the end of the video, viewers will have ...

The Robert Taylor Homes: Failure of Public Housing

Growing up in the Chicagoland area, I was constantly told to avoid the area surrounding the Robert Taylor Homes. It was not a recommendation ...

The Last White Kid in the Robert Taylor Homes - Medium

The Robert Taylor Homes, in Chicago's Bronzeville neighborhood, was at that time the largest public housing project in America. It consisted of ...

Growing Up Black and Poor in Chicago | News | The Harvard Crimson

Brothers gave me my first glimpse into the Robert Taylor Homes, and what life there can do to people. This book shows how utterly degrading ...

When It All Falls Down | Chapter 16

Toya Wolfe pens a tribute to the public housing project where she grew up in her outstanding debut, Last Summer on State Street.

Chicago, Illinois Public Housing: Living in the Robert Taylor Homes ...

Like many other residents of Robert Taylor Homes, missus White knows that the project is physically a vast improvement over the slums. Yet like ...

Implementation Case Study: Robert Taylor Homes, Bronzeville ...

Too many impoverished African American children were growing up in a neglected and underfunded public housing condition. This neglect was ...

Valee on Being Born in Chicago Robert Taylor Homes ... - YouTube

... Robert Taylor Homes, Once America's Largest Housing Project (Part 1) ... Hot Rod on growing up in the Stateway Gardens Housing Projects, Del ...

Documentary 'Tomorrow's Hope' Tells Story of Early Education ...

The Robert Taylor Homes in Bronzeville were at one point the largest public housing development in the country. As many as 27,000 families ...

Four Generations in the Projects - The New York Times

AMONG THE ORIGINAL TENANTS of the Robert Taylor Homes when they opened in 1962 were Ruby and Luther Haynes. Both Ruby and Luther had grown up ...

A Hip-Hop Elegy to Chicago's Demolished Housing Projects

Ironically, the Robert Taylor Homes were named for Robert Ronchon Taylor, the first African American CHA board member. Taylor resigned from the ...

robert taylor - The PBS Blog

Anyone who grew up in any of Chicago's projects is a survivor in my eyes, a warrior. It meant they not only escaped the drugs, violence, poverty, neglect, and ...