The Pruitt-Igoe Myth (2011) | Documentary on public housing in St. Louis

During the 1940s, the city of St. Louis was overcrowded, and slums began to developed in the area.

The Wendell O. Pruitt Homes and William Igoe Apartments, known together as "Pruitt–Igoe", was a 1950's public housing project envisioned by Democrats to reduce these slums.

A typical Soviet-styled housing complex comprised of 33 11-story apartment buildings were built, and it worked well for the first few years.
Dubious state-sanctioned rules however, tore some families apart early on, and as time went by, the blacks introduced degenerate behaviors and drugs, into an otherwise working middle-class neighborhood with plenty of children roaming the playgrounds.

Public funding for maintenance was reduced, and inevitably left to the tenants.
The whites (and upright blacks) started moving out, and eventually, the entire complex was overrun by black gangs.

This is the story of one of the greatest Democrat blunders of the post-WWII era.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pruitt%E2%80%93Igoe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pruitt-Igoe_Myth
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/pruitt-igoe | https://archive.is/U1uMY

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https://www.pruitt-igoe.com | https://archive.ph/jFNSt
http://www.pruitt-igoe.com/watch-now.html | https://archive.is/GZUW1
https://vimeo.com/18356414