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this is 99% invisible i'm roman mars these developments are run by the St. Louis Housing Authority.

This is a far cry from the crowded collapsing tenements that many of these people have known.

Here in bright new buildings with spacious

grounds they can live.

The Pruitt-Igo myth begins here. This is Chad Fredericks.

So Prud Igo was a public housing project that existed on the north side of St. Louis.

Chad Frederick's is the director and producer of the documentary The Pruett Igo Myth.

It was 3311-story buildings and it was part of a larger

urban renewal campaign that the city was undergoing in the 1940s and 50s.

It was touted as a solution, a cure for the disease. It was viewed kind of as a

replacement for low-rise tenement housing. People who had been living where they

literally never saw the sun. And so Prud Aigo was supposed to be everything different.

Now they would have more magnificent views

than the richest people in St. Louis.

It was high rise, whereas the private market housing was low rise it was federal and

therefore you wouldn't have the creeping influence of slum lords coming in and

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