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unusual facts about housing project



Stephan Dweck

Dweck and Ivey lived in the Frederick Douglass Houses housing project in Manhattan.


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Cady Way Trail

It was constructed along an abandoned East Florida and Atlantic Railroad corridor, which ran to the Naval Training Center Orlando, which is now Baldwin Park, an upscale housing project.

Chavez Ravine

Chavez Ravine: A Los Angeles Story, a film directed by Jordan Mechner, tells the story of how a Mexican American community was destroyed to make way for a low-income public housing project.

Colorado Court Housing

Colorado Court Housing is a 44-unit housing project designed by American architect Lawrence Scarpa of the architectural firm Brooks + Scarpa.

East Talpiot

An ancient tomb that some archeologists believe to be the tomb of Jesus and his family based on the names inscribed on the ossuaries was discovered in East Talpiot when a housing project was being built.

Edifício São Vito

Cabrini–Green, a similarly problematic housing project in Chicago, United States.

Eloise Greenfield

Greenfield was born in Parmele, North Carolina, and grew up in Washington, D.C., during the Great Depression in a housing project called Langston Terrace, named after John Mercer Langston, that provided a warm childhood experience for her.

Ernestine Anderson

In 2012, the Low Income Housing Institute named a housing project the "Ernestine Anderson Place" in her honor, noting Anderson's long residence in Seattle's Central District where the units are located.

Fatima Mansions

The Fatima Mansions, a musical group named after the housing project.

First House

First Houses, a public housing project in Manhattan in New York City

Kerry and Lindsay Clare

Following the inclusion of the McWilliam residence in the Venice Biennale 1991 their Cotton Tree social housing project was selected worldwide for inclusion in the 'Ten Shades of Green' exhibition in New York; an exhibition demonstrating architectural excellence and environmental sensitivity organised by the Architectural League of New York.

Kirby Puckett

Puckett was born in Chicago, Illinois, and raised in Robert Taylor Homes, a housing project on Chicago's South Side (the escape from which he frequently referred back to during his career).

Mart Stam

Stam was extraordinarily well-connected, and his career intersects with important moments in the history of 20th-century European architecture, including chair design at the Bauhaus, the Weissenhof Estate, the "Van Nelle Factory", an important modernist landmark building in Rotterdam, buildings for Ernst May's New Frankfurt housing project then to Russia with the idealistic May Brigade, to postwar reconstruction in Germany.

Mountain Cablevision

That same year, The Ontario Housing Corporation (which designed the Buchanan Park subdivision on Hamilton Mountain) was surveying the possibility of building a whole housing project with no above-ground utilities (placing them all underground to improve safety and reliability during storms).

Sint-Agatha-Berchem

The Belgian actor Jean-Claude Van Damme was born and raised here; this is also the site of the Cité Moderne a housing project from 1922-1925 designed by the great Belgian architect Victor Bourgeois.

Ten Eyck

The Ten Eyck Houses is another name for the Williamsburg Houses, a 12-block low-rent housing project built in the 1930s in Williamsburg, Brooklyn

The Miami Herald

1988: Feature photography, Michel duCille, "for photographs portraying the decay and subsequent rehabilitation of a housing project overrun by the drug crack."