Darnell Myers embraces his pit bull in the park at Grant Wood Elementary School near where he lives with his mom and siblings. Myers said there were no grass fields like this where he lived in Chicago. He and his family moved to Iowa City nearly a decade ago, following other family members who had been displaced when much of the high-rise project housing was torn down. His mother Charlene said, the wait for Section 8 in Chicago was so long that by the time she received the funding many of children would have been grown and needing it their own families.