However, we are a part of two new housing developments. These are not 'housing projects' as we knew them in the fifties and sixties that were subsidized. These are new residential, single-family housing developments beginning in the City of East St. Louis. We certainly hope so, because the lifeblood of any community is the strength of its citizens and the willingness and desire to live there. That's what attracts businesses.
People have to live and work in a community for businesses to see an opportunity to locate.
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