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JL OUIS I-TUIlT igoe a nousing complex in rrouDie "The biggest problem in pub- project was fully open in By KEN HARTNETT lie housing is maintenance, van ST. LOUIS (AP) That But do one is guaranteeing anything. Hopes of the 10,000 residents said Pruitt-Igoe was troubled from the start. Igoe was acquiring a reputation as a place to avoid. Its vacancy rate in housing-poor St.

Louis climbed to 15 per cent by the housing after a rent strike drove the housing authority to the brink of bankruptcy. The coalition, working In tan nate federal social services la the project. In three years, $5 million was spent for social services, but the effort fizzled. hich-rlse hell Prultt-Icoe, a who survive in the tombstone The stairways, virtually shattered and torn symbol of all that's wrong and ruinous in the dalism and security," said the Rev. Kirk Walsh, a Jesuit serving as a special consultant in the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).

fall 01 i960, it now stands at 50 like 11-story buildings have been soundproof, soon became ha per cent. nations public Mousing pro (EDITOR'S NOTE: "Pru. itl-lgoe is (he end 0 (he rood." That's how one government expert describee (he troubled public housing complex in St. Louis. In (his article, an urban ajjairs reporter examines what'i wrong and ruinous about Pruit(-Igo and the nation's whole public housing raised before only to be dashed vens for muggers and rapists.

Trying to maintain the aban dem with the tenants themselves, hopes to turn Pruitt-Igoe around, perhaps by thinning out its high density, modifying its design or even demolishing They also became public toi In continuing waves of murder, gram, is abor to undergo an other emergency operation. "And the only ones who can doned apartments became an rape, robbery and unremitting almost impossible task as van control vandalism are the peo lets for the thousands of Pruitt-Igoe children unable to dals, undeterred by the police or some or its 33 buildings. vandalism. Now, a new coalition of labor, ple who live there. But they must have a say so they can de get to their apartments in time This time, there is a glimmer of hope that the 15-year-old housing project, built at a cost of $36 million, will be, at the a inghtened resident popula Children one-nan the pro The key element in whatever plan evolves will be the tenants tion, smashed their way Inside termine what happens there, business and civic leaders has and looted whatever could be "Unless the people band to least, made livable.

taken charge of St. Louis public themselves. carted away. gether, they're not going to get "It became a place to breathe and breed and that was the limit to it," said Father Shocklee. The job of abating that rate and uniting Pruitt-Igoe's still warring elements is a key aim of the new St.

Louis Civic Alliance for Housing. Eventually, the alliance, headed by Teamsters official Harold Gibbons, would like to phase out all high-rise family units and create instead a less concentrated pattern of living for those families most in need. The alliance also hopes some day to turn over the ownership and management of St. Louis's ject's population is under 16 left without recreational facilities, soon found a favorite pastimesticking the elevators. One variation was to make an elevator door swing open while security.

Right now it's costing them a day in vandalism The cost squeeze drew tighter. By 1968, the housing authorUy Reapportionment: suburbs gain In St. Louis." Last year, Pruitt-Igoe en disbanded its private security the elevator was floors above or dured 10 murders, 14 reported force to save $130,000 a year. "With all those empty apart below. rapes, 129 reported assaults, growing power of new forces ments, the project became an The unwary could and did gent" replaced the "cornstalk" Gunfire sounded regularly from By MICHAEL J.

SNIFFEN Associated Press Writer fall to their deaths. ideal place for a dope pusher to brigade in Ohio perennialrv un the half-abandoned project's up reapportionment has brought to the legislature. vada, New York, Pennsylvania and Texas. In all but Connecticut, Florida and Nevada, however, divided urban delegations, a rural-ur Three years after the project per reaches. The nation's suburbs have get lost," said the Rev.

John Shocklee, who joined the St, successful legislation was approved to dilute a statewide ban on sale of liquor by the drink on The marks 01 violence are opened, the St. Louis Globe gained as much as the big cities "We've taken 70 per cent of nme projects to tenant Democrat was referring to it ed the money and earmarked it for Sunday, a move long sought by everywhere in Pruitt-Igoe. Far more windows are smashed than remain intact. Heavy steel itorially as "a paradise for Louis Housing Commission in 1965. HUD's Miss Wood visited Pruitt-Igoe in 1966 to report on development of parks where the me more populated areas.

thieves, thugs and rapists and a ban stalemate or rural legislators entrenched in leadership and seniority prevented major legislative gains for the big cit people are specifically in the nightmare for police." Winona Daily Newt Winona, Minnesota WEDNESDAY, MAY 1979 doors lie crimpled and unhinged. Thick concrete walls But not everywhere have the cities," says Rep. William an ill-fated attempt to coordi Despite its newness, Pruitt- under the Supreme Court's one-man, one-vote decision. In some states, suburbs have taken legislative dominance directly from rural lawmakers, giving them a louder voice than the cities have. The pattern emerges from a survey by Associated Press Hampton of the wealthy Detroit ies.

suburb Bloomfield Hills, are battered through with sledge-hammers. Even the copper flashing protecting the roofs results been so favorable to non-rural interests. A 1964 reapportionment in Virginia shifted just 11 legisla Reapportionment in 1966 in In Oregon, Louisiana and Virginia, reapportionment failed to end rural majorities in the state New York and in California. where the number of senators is stripped away. The vandalism brought disas legislature.

torsthree senators and eight delegates from the rural to member newspapers in 25 states eight years after the court en ter last winter one of the cold from Los Angeles County jumped from one to 14 in the 40-member body, were cited as The new suburban legislators est in city history, city-suburbap column, and the populous Northern Virginia and JtiW.ll,lJMHiiilHij-Jiililtila1tihlilMri tered the political thicket of lee- are credited in almost all states Pipes, exposed to the frigid Tidewater counties still control surveyed with energy, know! islative reapportionment with its decision in the Tennessee temperatures because of the instances in which big cities gained more than they should have. new districts were edge of issues and diligence rare before their appearance. only one-third of the seats in the legislature. case of Baker vs. Carr.

thousands of broken windows, froze. When they thawed, they based on 1960 Census figures In 11 states, core cities -nade And most of them are Republi The suburbs came out on top cracked and the project was and failed to reflect the contin the most significant gains while after a handful of reapportion cans, but party victories appear less permanent than regional ued mushrooming of suburbs ment battles in New Jersey, and after that date. ones. flooded. Heat and power failed.

Scores of families lost their meager possessions as water poured into living rooms, bedrooms and closets. last year nearly all the lawmak Connecticut, where the big cit in another 11 the suburbs did. But the suburban victory was greater than those figures indicate. The decision came too late for Reapportionment was credit ies picked up major blocks of ed with aiding enactment of so ers were ready to increase state aid to education, in which New Jersey ranked well in the bottom half of the nation. votes after the 1965 reapportion cial welfare and urban-subur- ment, saw several major bills It was an unusually severe the big cities of some states- ban aid legislation in California, passed as a result.

and dramatic emergency, but Connecticut, Florida, Indiana even by 1960, population shifts to the suburbs were widespread. The urban lawmakers sought Formerly the town of Union for residents of Pruitt-Igoe, all of them black and 70 per cent of a reform of the formula weight with 500 people had two House Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Texas and ed in favor of impoverished core Some of the urban victories appear only temporary, based on 1960 population figures which them on welfare, life is a contin members as did Hartford with 163,000 people. Now Union is Washington. Minnesota is a dramatic ex uing emergency, dull, depress ing and dangerous. lumped in a district with three other towns, and Hartford has ample of the shift of power from don't reflect the fact that only the suburbs have been rapidly cities, but the suburbanites prevailed.

A $25 per pupil increase was granted across the board whether the pupil was in nearly bankrupt Newark or the upper rural legislators to suburban 10 representatives. "Pruitt-Igoe is the end of the road," said Miss Elizabeth Wood, a HUD public housing ites, largely Republican and in As a result, the state share of class suburb of Short Hills. creasingly able to get legislation local welfare costs was hiked specialist. approved for their areas. from 50 to 75 per cent, a com Swiss movBmtnts TOPSAIL WATCHES Beg.

$5.99 and $6.99 Hundreds sold at their regular low prices. Sport dress styles for women and men. Calendars; and more. But Pruitt-Igoe is unique, not Redistricting in 1962 and 1969 increased the number of state in kind, but in degree. munity affairs department with a multimillion dollar program to aid cities was established and Florida weathered two reapportionments with "grandfather" clauses allowing rural legislators whose districts had been wiped out to complete their terms.

gaining population since then. The real suburban victory, however, was in winning legislative representation proportionate to population so soon after the population arrived a privilege the big cities were denied. New legislation attributable to reapportionment ranges from establishment of a cabinet-level department to aid urban areas The seeds that produced legislators from the five counties around Minneapolis and St, Pruitt-Igoe have been sown in virtually every major city in both the school and road aid formulas were revised to aid inner Paul from 51 out of 202 to 85, In places like Missouri, where A metropolitan council bill for cities. America as the poorest of the poor with no place else to go- reapportionment handed the Redistricting brought about are shunted into public housing an even rural-urban split in House leadership from rural to urban legislators, division be projects. tween cities and between cities the Twin Cities cleared the 1967 session.

State Sen. Robert 0. Ashbach, 53-year-old former mayor of a St. Paul suburb who went to the legislature in 1962. lobbied unsuccessfully in 1963, 1965 and in Connecticut to a new state highway aid mechanism in California to a loosening of Sunday Building beginning in 1952 at a barebones cost of $2,089 per i I i A t.i ln r.fi.,,,., -i and suburbs left the balance of Texas, but one result was passage of the first state minimum wage law last year.

Urban counties in Florida supplanted the "pork chop" gang, which had achieved legislative power with rural lawmakers liquor sale restrictions in Ohio. room, Pruitt-Igoe was planned as two projects one, Pruitt, for In Indiana, legislators from The suburban areas won the Negroes; the other, Igoe, for the cities of Gary, Hammond, 1967 for a Twin Cities regional greatest and most significant increases in representation in Col whites. majorities while representing 18 East Chicago and South Bend are Democrats and those from orado, Delaware, Illinois, Mary A law suit torpedoed the intended black-white separation, sewer authority. It passed last year. In Michigan, where the Senate Appropriation Committee con per cent of the voters.

Legislative action ensued on consolida land, Massachusetts, Michigan, Indianapolis and Ft. Wayne are Republicans. So far they've but the result was never inte If perfect 59W.99 ASSORTED TOWELS Minnesota, Ohio, New Jersey, tion of city and county services, gration. Instead, Pruitt-Igoe be Rhode island and Washington pollution control, planning, zon rarely cooperated. Similar stalemates and unu came overwhelmingly black.

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