About Robin Hood Gardens
This is not (just) about a Building | A funeral for Robin Hood Gardens
It’s not just about the building
It’s about the stories people had and won´t have
It’s about the fast transformation of the city
It’s about buildings that been here for 55 years being replace by buildings that won’t last 20 years
It’s about tearing everything down and starting a “brand new community”
It’s about families selling their houses in the city, for a great amount of money but not being able to afford anything in the city, move out of the city and end up with a mortgage
it’s about kicking communities out, and tearing them apart
it’s about the giving the city to the have-ones, and the taking it away from the have- nots
It’s about new expensive buildings that are empty and the fact that are more homeless now that in the Great Depression
It’s about working in a and for a city where you cannot live
It’s about not being heard
It’s about quitting a fight, about being silent because you know you are not being heard
It’s about the pain of a slow death and the lack of Momentum
It’s about politics, because housing is political.