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......
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