2026-01-29
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This is Planet Money from NPR.
Weissina Williams still remembers the day she went to go watch a public housing tower near where she lived in North Philadelphia get knocked down.
I assume there was gonna fall over.
So I don't know how it's like you heard dynamite like six times go off.
Then it was like boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
The tower was part of a development called Cambridge Plaza.
Weissina and some friends had walked over to see just what happened when you blew up a 14 story building.
We was like always gonna come down on us and all this other stuff No, actually it came down,
but it came that's probably so much That's why they say so much smoke comes up
because it just like smashed itself down that demolition was part of this massive federal program started in the early 1990s called hope six Congress wanted to do something to deal with all of these incredibly rundown public housing projects around the country.
Hope 6 provided money to demolish hundreds of those projects and,
in a lot of cases, to replace them with newer and better buildings.
Weissina, she herself lived in public housing.
She grew up in a low-rise development nearby called the Richard Allen Homes.