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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Pruitt-Igoe housing development was hailed as a national model when it opened in 1954. Poor construction, maintenance issues, crime, and failed social policies, led to its downfall in the 1970s, ...

Trees and brush have grown for 32 years to cover the failure. The last of the buildings, 33 in all and each 11 stories high, came down in 1976 - ending St. Louis's public housing experiment called ...

An rendering of proposed commercial buildings in the former Pruitt-Igoe site. The LCRA has in recent months worked with St. Louis-based Civitas to propose design guidelines for the site. LCRA The city ...

Past residents of Pruitt-Igoe (which was demolished in the 1970s) recall trucks releasing a dense chemical fog into their streets and mysterious "maintenance workers" installing sprayers on rooftops, ...