National Public Housing Museum Opens in Chicago

Healthy societies create museums to memorialize historical triumphs. In upside-down world, progressives create museums to celebrate their most conspicuous failures — like public housing:

Set inside a once-dilapidated 1938 building on Chicago’s near West Side, a one-of-a-kind museum hopes to change the perception of public housing in America.

That perception would be that public housing has served as miserable chicken pens for the dependents bred by the welfare state so as to harvest their votes. Housing projects are windows into a hellish future where government dependency facilitates the degeneration of citizens into mooching savages who are useless to anyone except on election day. Chicago’s Cabrini-Green was the iconic representative, actually inspiring a series of horror movies.

Bureaucrats are attempting an image makeover by spending $17.5 million to transform a former federal housing project into the National Public Housing Museum.

It’s the brainchild of public housing residents who wanted to tell a more complete story about their lives, from the joys of living in tight-knit communities to the effects of racist housing policies.

“Tight-knit” could be a reference to gang membership, which tends to be rife among these fatherless communities. The reference to “racist housing policies” confirms that no attempt to preach the religion of Critical Race Theory will go unexploited by moonbats.

Remnants of a paint-chipped wall, with cracks and graffiti, greets visitors at the entrance.

Maybe they also left discarded crack pipes and shell casings to capture the true ambience.

“It’s a museum that says, ‘There are things that everybody deserves,’” said Sunny Fischer, a consultant for foundations, who grew up in public housing and is the museum board’s chair.

Too bad the things leftists think everyone deserves often belong to someone else.

One thing no one deserves is to be born into the nightmare realm of public housing.

On a tip from Dave F.

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