“The Projects” have been around for over 100 years, especially after WWII.
They used to be concrete block duplexes with little yards. I lived in one as a young kid.
Now they build crowded apartment buildings which quickly turn into the jungle.
We lived in quonset huts that were WWII leftovers when my father went to school on GI bill.
Hadda big sheet put up to separate the “kitchen” (one sink) from the “bedrooms”...the one that was sposeta be a living room.
In the summer it was like 300 deg in there. After all, it was just a corrugated steel/aluminum oven, ya know?
The neighborhood was peaceful and quiet, virtually zero crime. Funny that.
Watsonville is a Mexican gangster nightmare because...they are there in squadron strength. Didn’t use to be: people I know grew up there in the ‘50s/60’s and said it was a nermal ‘Merican town. Then...the Invasion began.