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Connecticut CollegeDigital Commons @ Connecticut CollegeArchitectural Studies Integrative Projects Art History and Architectural Studies2015Poetic Justice & Crumbling Structures:Deteriorating Segregated Spaces in NYC PublicHousing & the Policies that Created ThemCesar MoranConnecticut CollegeFollow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/archstudintprojThis Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Art History and Architectural Studies at Digital Commons @ Connecticut College. It hasbeen accepted for inclusion in Architectural Studies Integrative Projects by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Connecticut College.For more information, please contact bpancier@conncoll.edu.The views expressed in this paper are solely those of the author.Recommended CitationMoran, Cesar, "Poetic Justice & Crumbling Structures: Deteriorating Segregated Spaces in NYC Public Housing & the Policies thatCreated Them" (2015). Architectural Studies Integrative Projects. Paper 70.http://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/archstudintproj/70CESAR MORAN  SENIOR INTEGRATIVE PROJECT: INDEPENDENT STUDY  ARCHITECTURAL STUDIES CONNECTICUT COLLEGE 2015 Poetic Justice & Crumbling Structures Deteriorating Segregated Spaces in NYC Public Housing & the Policies that Created Them	  Cesar Moran Architectural Studies 	  Bronx in New York City - How does housing affect this?  	  “Bronx	   has	   a	   poverty	   rate	   of	   31.3	   percent,	  and	   a	   child	   poverty	   rate	   of	   44.5	   percent,	  meaning	  almost	  one	  third	  of	  residents	   in	  the	  Bronx	  are	  poor	  and	  almost	  half	  of	  all	  children	  in	  the	  Bronx	  live	  in	  poverty.”	  (2012)	  -  NYC	  CoaliEon	  Against	  Hunger	  New York City Housing Authority - Public Housing Public Housing	  ❖  U.S Department of  Housing and Urban Development gives federal aid to local housing agencies that manage public housing  ❖  Agencies built cost efficient high rises to maximize the number of  people to benefit  ❖  Started in the 1950s and ends in 1974  ❖  Intended to create safe and decent rental housing for low income families, senior citizens, and persons with disabilities  ❖  Eligibility depends on US citizenship, immigration status, & criminal record “The Other Park Avenue”  	  Research Question: How has planning and policy served to segregate and disenfranchise lower income communities in New York City? 	  Method: Dissection of  Policy Through Poetry 	  Racial Segregation in New York City (Map by Eric Fischer) 	  KEY: WHITE / BLACK / LATIN@ / ASIAN Locations of  NYCHA Housing Developments 	  Crumbling Conditions	  ❖ 70 year old buildings  ❖ At least 300,000 unmet repair requests  ❖ $6 Billion are needed to accomplish all repairs   ❖ 80% of  apartments have at least one deficiency  ❖ Tenants face: mold, asbestos, inadequate or no heat/electricity  ❖ Waiting line of  160,000 people “Fixing a Leak with a Bucket”  (2015 - Melrose Houses in the South Bronx) 	  1955 - Marble Hill Housing Development, Bronx (NYC) 	  Why use Poetry as a Method?	  As I studied various housing policies, I came to find that the language and intent was very disconnected from the harsh realities that people living in these poor conditions were facing.   Power of  metaphors  Easier to understand  Emotional impact  Dealing with trauma  Emotional connection  “Incubation of  Poverty”  (2014 - Marble Hill Housing) 	  “Highway (De)Construction”  (2014 - Cross Bronx Expressway) 	  “Repeatedly Falling, We’ll Go”  (1972 - Demolition of  Pruitt-Igoe) 	  Reflection: Policy Findings  (Enterprise Community Partners)	  “They look on, from above, down at us from their condo views... They looked on, from above to say hey  one less delinquent there...”  ❖ Affordable Housing 	  “You on your last breath, you dying civilization, you are playing too fast too loose with no principles, you made too many problems thinkin money would catch em and eradicate em all for you…”  ❖ Budget Cuts Redissection: Policy Recommendations (Community Grassroots Organizing)	  “Just open space without a united community, Without a collaborative existence...”   ❖  Community Voices Heard (CVH) “I owe my life to my brother’s intuition  Intuition to stop for a bit and be a kid...” 	  	  ❖  Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP) 	  2014 – CVH at the People’s Climate March “Space Jam: What are the issues with NYCHA” (CUP) 	  SIP: Dissection of  Policy Through Poetry	  Poem 1: Souls Made of  Bricks Immediate Urban Environment  Observations   *Poem 2: Intuition of  this Existence  Personal Narrative   *Public Housing  Poem 4: Cross Bronx Expressway  *Urban Renewal: Slum Clearance   *Urban Planning: Highway     Construction  *Exclusionary Zoning Poem 3: Home-Owners of  the American Dream   *Red Lining   *Exclusionary Zoning   *GI - Bill  Poem 5: Cabrini Two  Failures: Pruitt Igoe & Cabrini Green   *Section 8   *Hope 6    Poem 6: A Story of  Policy vs. Poetry (Censored) Our America: Life & Death on the South Side of  Chicago (LeAlan Jones & Lloyd Newman) 

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