On July 23, 1953, St. Louis'' first integrated public housing, Igoe, accepted its first four white and three black families. Between it and Pruitt, which housed black families, there were 33 ...

Once hailed as the future of urban living, St. Louis’s Pruitt-Igoe housing project became a symbol of failure, poverty, and neglect. Its demolition marked not just the end of a neighborhood — but the ...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. (First Alert 4) - Former members of the troubled community once hailed as an answer to the city’s housing crisis gathered on Sunday at the site of the now long-demolished Pruitt-Igoe ...

Dir. Chad Friedrichs (2011) Freidrichs’s indispensable cine-essay explores the history of the St. Louis public-housing project of the title, which opened in the mid-1950s only to be demolished 20 ...