44 Distillation Guidebook Co-Lab • 9.18–9.19 2025 of residents but instead displaced the majority of people – who were predominantly Black and Jewish. “The majority of families surveyed paid higher rents, were farther from their employment, and did not intend to apply for the housing program... of the 700 applications initially lodged with the Housing Authority, only a small fraction were from the original demolition site, meaning that the residents whose lives were improved by Pioneer Homes would not have been the families who were displaced.” By the 1950s, redlining and racialized zoning had systematically confined Black residents to a small number of neighborhoods; over 90% of the city’s Black population was living in the 15th ward. Within this context, Pioneer Pioneer Homes "Site Improvement Plan"
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