Lanza Project Families - Information

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Lanza Projects is a 200-unit public housing community located within the Commerce neighborhood of Los-Santos, San Andreas.
The community is directly east of Acacia Avenue, and borders the neighborhoods of Verdant Bluffs and Little Moscow.
The community was built from 1950 to 1952 for primarly Caucasians.
After the expension and upgrade of Los-Santos, caucasians left the housing projects for the suburbs.
Leaving the whole area to African-Americans alongs with Puerto-Ricans.
Due to being borders with neighborhood of Little Mexico, latino population within the community appears to be on the rise.
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The community had received significant attention after several armed assaults, within the premises that occured in the 2010's.
-According to the Los-Santos Post and Associated Press-
as the poverty of the citizens within the housing projects rising, violent crimes seems to be seen more often.
As stated by several people from the community, the Lanza Projects appears to be home of to new-era gangsters in Los-Santos.
Unfortunatly for résidents, they turned the innocent lives of citizens to a misery due to their violents behavior.
It was confirmed that the housing projects was home of the ''Lanza Projects Families''.
It's known criminal organization formed primarly by Afro-Americans and Puerto-Ricans, being a new set of the well known ''Families'' nation.
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Cortez Deleon was born in the 90's in a poor neighborhood in the city of San Juan, Puerto-Rico.
At two years old, his family moved to America in an attempt to make a better living and escape the violence of Puerto-Rico.
Cortez passed his first years in a city called Los-Santos, in the neighborhood of Playa Del Seville to be exact.
The Deleon family quickly realised that violence surrounded their new American's neighborhood, making it worse than Puerto-Rico.
Cortez's father who was unemployed was struggling to find a legal job in America has an immigrant without legal papers.
He finally gave up, letting the streets swallowing him, turning to the narcotics trade, making a living for his family.
At five years old, as Cortez was playing in the neighborhood of Playa Del Seville with his brother know as Tremaine "Loco" Deleon,
their father been struck several times by a Glock.17 as he was walking home, dying instantatly.
After years of living in the "Ville" Complex, Cortez's mother realised her son was a trouble-maker as he was getting involved in several fights.
In an attempt to change her son's faith, she sent him to Lanza Projects in South Los-Santos to live with his grand-mother.
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Dwayne Dorsey, aka Looney, was born in the middle 90's, he grew up in the projects of Liberty City, then moved down to California
around the age of 15, he meet Cortez in the Lanza apartments and was impressed of what he was doing and said.
He joined the hustla life to gain respect and money out in the streets of Los Santos.
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Cortez quickly made himself a name into the Lanza Projects, being called "Domino" due to his "Black and White" skin.
Domino became friend with two other residents, a teenager from Liberty City and a few others.
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Looney, came all the way from the East Coast. He has a short temper if people try to use him.
He stays in the Lanza complex and is selling the shipments he received from China.
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The few kids showed alot of interest into the hustling lifestyle.
They were obviously impressed by the flashy lifestyle and money of them so-called gangsters in the streets of Los-Santos.
As one thing leads to another, the crew started to deal with narcotics within the housing projects,
making generous profit due to being the only drug dealers in the area.
As time passed, tons of teens wanted to do the same, filling the Lanza Projects cumminity into drugs dealers and crackheads.
Slowly, due to narcotics abuse and the violent acts of the teenagers, the residents behavior changed.
Fear equals respect and respect equals war, that's what happened within the 200-unit community of Commerce.
Every teens had his own crew, attempting to make it to the top of the Lanza Projects, turning residents against eachothers.
It was simple, the narcotics business within the community was generating alot of profit to these teens surrounded by poverty.
They were greedy, they couldn't let anyone else take their money.
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Due to their new flashing lifestyle, Cortez's crew didn't wanted at all to let other dealers operate into their housing projects.
If somebody else could sell for 5$, that was 5$ less in somebody else pocket.
In the beginging of the 2010's, firearms made their first apparitions within the housing projects.
It was revealed that an unidentified male carryed a pistol into the building, strucking a rival dealer with five bullets, killing him.
As it's well known, fists and knives are useless against firearms, turning the fists to firearms and brawls to shootouts,
leaving the housing projects filled with bullets holes all over the building.
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Cortez's brother was well known in the city of Los-Santos, being the notorious Playa Del Seville rapper,
Tremaine ''Loco'' Deleon, who was part of the Seville Boulevard Families organization.
The crew showed alot of interest in Loco due to his rap skills and gang affiliations, making him one of their so called role model.
It was obvious, things were getting serious inside of the Lanza Projects.
The crew knew they needed to make a big move to be respected and feared by others hustlers, attempting to get a reputation in the whole city.
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One of them finally came out with the idea of starting their own ''Families'' set in the housing projects, making them the first Projects-Gang in the city of Los-Santos.
Based upon others street gangs as Grove Street Families, Seville Boulevard Families or Temple Drive Families, the group started to wear green clothes, making themselves more visible into the community.
As time passed, they exchanged neutral colors for green, flashing bandanas everywhere into the Lanza Projects, presenting themselves as ''Families'' members.
Same as Cortez, Flake, Looney and D.J, other kids were impressed by their flashy lifestyle, jewels and money. The small crew then turned into a more populated gang, ranging from every ages and nationalities.
Afro-Americans, Puerto-Ricans and even Caucasians, aslong as they were making profit into their own housing projects, the teens didn't gave a single fuck, turning the innocent teens into violent minded criminals.
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This concept of criminals organization was unknown in the city of Los-Santos, being differents from street gangs and well-organized mafias or even 1% motorcycles club.
Unlike other neighborhoods, Commerce's streets were clean from crimes clearly because the gang didn't showed interest in expending and exposing themselves to the streets of Los-Santos.
Never judge a book by its cover, it was the same in the Lanza Projects. Everything seen from the outside was perfect, having nice citizens and low crime rate.
Inside the housing projects, things were differents. This new Families set succeded to turn what was a peacefull building to a dangerous ghetto, making it impossible to support for alot of residents.
As the crimes rate keep going higher, alot of residents from the Lanza Projects left the building, leaving tons of vacants appartements to them new-era gang members.
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*Jay Callahan has been struck by five bullets as he was leaving the Lanza Projects.*