Episode 675 • • 22:47 - 30:19
675: Aristocrats!
St. Louis Public Housing History and the Pruitt-Igoe Project Failure
The Pruitt-Igoe housing project in St. Louis, built in 1949 under the Truman administration, eventually collapsed due to poor maintenance and restrictive welfare rules. Residents recalled how the welfare department forced fathers to leave the home as a condition for families to receive aid, leading to a systemic breakdown of the black nuclear family before the buildings were demolished in 1969.