The Pruitt-Igoe today, that housing complex is something that the liberals of today would call paradise. Very little rent and government-subsidized. People on welfare and social security lived there. It was 33 towers, and many weren't even fully occupied.  Below is a timeline that was taken from The Metropolitian Midwest: Policy Problems and Prospects for Change.

• 1936- Bartholomew ring plan published calling for redevelopment of slum belt around St. Louis central business district.
• 1951- Bulldozing begins for Pruitt-Igoe, the second postwar project. Architectu­ral magazine acclaims design, housing authority proclaims it's a model for the rest of the country.
• 1954- Pruitt's first tenant, Frankie Mae Raglin, moves in.
• 1955- First recorded accidents as two girls fall, one from seventh, one from the ninth floor. Firemen rescue children from the stalled elevators.
• 1961-Occupancy averages only 82 percent. Crime rate highest of all city projects.
• 1962- State opens special Pruitt-Igoe welfare office with 45 additional case­workers, two-thirds of households on welfare.
• 1964- Federal program launched to repair damage and create four- and five­ bedroom apartments out of the smaller, unoccupied Pruitt-Igoe units, $5 million new grant.
• 1966- Power failures become commonplace. Gas explosion, several central heating system breakdowns damage buildings and tenants' possessions, water supply freezes, pipes burst.
• 1968- Housing Authority director requests federal takeover or abandonment because of fiscal crisis. Massive rent increases force some occupants to pay three-fourths of their income for rent.
• 1969- Pruitt-Igoe tenants join with other public housing tenants in the nation’s longest public housing rent strike-nine months. At one time 28 of 34 elevators were inoperable, other systems were in comparable states.
• 1970- Sixty-five percent of Pruitt-Igoe units unoccupied. Deliverymen, mes­sengers, and maintenance personnel refuse to enter the project without guards...Citing an expected $400,000 operating deficit and dwindling demand, SLHA announces the intention of closing down many buildings.
• 1971- HUD concurs with closing plans. The remaining tenants moved to 11 buildings.
• 1972- Demolition experiment 16 March with controlled dynamite charges level three buildings in the middle of the project, $500,000 federal demonstration grant.
• 1973- St. Louis Housing Authority decides in June to cease operating Pruitt-Igoe. HUD announces in August the decision to demolish Pruitt-Igoe.
• 1974- The last tenant moves out in May.
• 1976- Final razing completed, $3.5 million HUD grant pays the wreckers.

As you can see, the project plagued by problems was never fully occupied. It was crime-ridden. Not even the police or the mail carrier wanted to go there. People never felt that it was safe enough to move their families into the project. It had nothing to do with race. Instead with the short-sightedness of the establishment, and just the general failure of big government that failed.

People need to feel responsible and a sense of ownership of their property or they'll abuse the things around them, they need to work, or crime will result. They need to be in a profession that they like or it'll cause unhappiness and revolt will happen. People need to have their liberties.

Again, this is where the left and the liberals fall short and they lack the comprehension to understand why the system in America has worked for hundreds of years and people are happy with it. And why Socialism always ends up in failure and in Ruin like the Pruitt-Igoe.