July 1, 2007
a look at North Jackson Ward
Calling it “the city’s most isolated and desperate neighborhood”, Style Weekly put North Jackson Ward on the cover for their 11/08/06 issue with The Lost Neighborhood.
From the article:
The statistics are grim. Incomes in 80 percent of the neighborhood’s households fall below the poverty line of $15,000; 65 percent of its adult population didn’t finish high school; and 99 percent of its residents either rent or live in Gilpin Court, the city’s oldest and largest public housing project.
[...] biggest project on the books is the redevelopment of Gilpin/North Jackson Ward. The RRHA intends to transform its oldest and largest public housing development and the adjacent [...]