The Pruitt-Igoe Myth
99% Invisible
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Prude Igo - The Scale Doomed the Project
The scale doomed prudigo from the start. The high vacancy rate meant that the house an authority couldn't collect enough money to pay the maintenance bills. Things began to break. More people lefd. Less rent could be collected. Everything just got worse and worse. And oftentimes you would actually see higher crime rates in the surrounding neighborhoods than you saw prude igo. No one really ever talks about those low rise, private markete houses that existed around prue igo. People focus on it. It's always prudigo.
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