Hull House is a very interesting building to say the least. But what surprises me is that it is no longer acting in the community as it should be. I don’t think that anyone would argue it was a bad thing from what we learned. Giving everyone jobs, skills, and milk. But it is now just a portion of the size it was all those years ago and why is that? The city once again had to go and ruin something that worked. It wanted a bigger campus for the university so they had to make room. All because the Hull House did not fit into their “vision” of what Chicago should be like.
But I wonder why there are no modern day Hull Houses that we know about. I am sure it costs an enormous amount to run, staff, and provide for all the people that would be there. Because of the nature of a house like this there should be no problem getting funding. Humanitarian groups would donate, if the house did a study like Hull House Sociological societies would give funding, as would anthropological.
But something like this taking hold in society today would most likely not happen without a fight. Plenty of people would say it’s like a misappropriation of funds and they would be better spent on our roads. Others would say it will fail in a few years, or that no one would use it. I personally think that it would depend on location more than anything else. If we put this in a struggling neighborhood than there is a definite chance that we can change hundreds of lives. Than by piggybacking on this success we can move into bigger areas, eventually into a possible city wide Hull House of sorts? My main question to you guys is can you think of anyone that would have a chance at running something like this?
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