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The Urban Renewal Act: Pruitt-Igoe

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The Urban Renewal act was a housing plan the government came up with to fix slum areas for the better part of society. The idea was to rebuild the slum parts into a better living are for the people and a better environment. The government was funding the project to have the homes built. Thus the project in Pruitt-Igoe. This was a common good movement because there were many people in the city who did not have a place to live. The people in the area were unsafe and the project was to build a place to have an affordable safe housing. The housing and people, who lived there, were not being discriminated. They could be any one, black white, American etc. or not to live there.
The intention of Pruitt-Igoe was a good intention. One woman who lived …show more content…

The police soon were being attack because the people in the tenants felt anger toward the justice system. When none of the tenants could live in that condition any more, the building become a place for crime lord and drugs and whatnot. I think the building being destroy was a good thing. The place is not off-limits to everyone. If the government wanted to start a new plan and work on it again, I think Pruitt-Igoe would be a good example of what not to let happen. The common good can look back and think of a better plan keeping in mind what happen before us. Pruitt-Igoe also was a holding place of control and a bigger problem for racial segregation, which was something that is not acceptable, for America or the common good. Common good is not promoting drug use or crime, it to help, and Pruitt-Igoe intentions started to help but turn fatal in its final years. In getting rid of the building, gotten rid of a small crime rate to keep people safe. It was for the best to have gotten rid of the building but not the idea. The idea now is use by Caring House, and for that I am

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