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Well…. They’ve been announcing this for years, you thought they were playing huh? The time has finally come. The city of Atlanta is tearing down the projects. this means no more government funding housing in the inner city. All it is, is gentrification. they want black people out, and white people back in. or maybe i should say, they want the poor out, and rich in. There tearing down public housing and pushing poor people outside of the city to places like Clayton County. The funny thing is these housing projects are so far outside the city, their practically in the burbs. I’ve met people born and raised in Atlanta who have no idea where Perry Homes, Hollywood Courts, or Bankhead Courts even are. Trust there not in the inner city thats for damn sure.
This is nothing new to people in other cities like Boston, Chicago, New York where the government has been doing this since the early 90’s.
Once all the projects are gone, watch how your rent goes up just like the gas prices! I’m sure we’ll also see the Homeless population rise as well. As if there aren’t already too many people living on the streets.
Maybe Atlanta will finally do something smart like build some parks! I’ve never had to drive to a park to play Basketball until I moved to ATL. I’m used to seeing a court every few blocks up north. All these damn trees and no parks???
R.I.P: Techwood Homes, Perry Homes, Adamsville, Capital Homes, Grady Homes, East Lake Meadows, Carver Homes, and soon Thomasville Heights, Herndon Homes, Bankhead Courts, and Bowen Homes.
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This article is from the Atlanta Business Chronicle check it out.
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development late Wednesday gave its OK to the Atlanta Housing Authority (AHA) to tear down the city’s final four major family housing projects.
The projects slated for demolition — Hollywood Courts, Thomasville Heights, Herndon Homes and Bankhead Courts — have more than 1,200 units. The demolition of a fifth project, Bowen Homes, with 650 units, was approved last week.
“History has been written today,” said Renee Lewis Glover, AHA president and CEO. “These approvals mean the end of the 73 years of housing projects in Atlanta. We have become the first major city in the nation to completely eradicate these areas of government-sponsored concentrated poverty, crime and low educational achievement.”
Glover added that AHA remains focused on serving the housing needs of Atlanta’s poorer citizens.
“In the 1930s, public housing was an amazingly far-sighted approach to the nation’s critical shortage of housing,” Glover said. “But in the 21st Century, a new approach is necessary — one that integrates the families into the mainstream economy. Isolating poor families apart from the mainstream is wrong. The costs, financial, human, and social are staggering.”
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RIP Cabrini Green, Ida B Wells, Robert Taylors, & The Ickies. They too scared to go to the Gardens
Yeah. It’s about Black and White but it’s also about dollars and “sense/cents”. You’re right on both counts. Black and white to affect the electorate. Dollars and cents because of the realization of the increasing property values in the city. That’s why my wife and I scrambled to buy a home here when it was still affordable a few years back. We weren’t yet married, and we barely had the means but we did it. No way in hell am I going to stand idly by and watch them do to Washington Park what is being done to Harlem. No African Drummers?
This neighborhood, and many others serve as a relic of a by-gone era, for certain. But they are also symbols of pride and accomplishment as well as pain and suffering.
The old fourth ward will never be the same and that is due to ownership. If we want our say, our vote to matter we have to play the game.
No matter how ugly it is.
I’m damn glad that they’re tearing down the projects. Nothing good comes or HAS come from them in forever. It used to be that living in those areas MOTIVATED people to want better for themselves, but not anymore. Now, people are not only PROUD to live in the ‘hood, but have no plans of leaving. I’ve got 4 generations of family in Bowen Homes, etc, and do you think most of them utilized the resources available to get up, get out, and get something better for themselves and their children? No. They were born without a dime, birthed children without a dime, and the cycle continues. People who are not ABLE to work should definitely have assistance (pregnant mothers, people with disabilities, the elderly, etc.) but when you have grown ass, able bodied men using these properties to terrorize and dominate others, it definitely needs to be eradicated. Maybe good will come from it, maybe not. But people that are poor are not dumb (unless they buy into their situation), they need to get on the good foot and realize this is 2008, not the 1970s. The world still has a helluva lotta problems, and people who want you to fail, but for the sake of our communities, the people who we’re trying to save need to step up and start saving themselves.
Good Point CA…
So MOVING it solves the problem? No education upgrades- in fact moving them to a school district without it’s certification?
Moving people FURTHER from their jobs- often folks who depend on MARTA and now have to use sub-standard transit?
There certainly has to be a better solution.
How long will they take to tear down all the projects? Is there a deadline? Aren’t they building a park that is similar to NY’s Central park? I believe it will have a bike trail that goes from ATL to Tennessee. Does anyone know about his development? If so, where exactly is the park being developed?
first of all i have to say is this article is very wrong..
every project stated in that list is in atlanta ..the inner city.. AND MAKE A LONG STORY SHORT..THEY HAVE A LONG WAY TO GO BEFORE THEY TEAR DOWN EVERY PROJECT IN ATLANTA…(THOMASVILLE HEIGHTS/ HERDON HOMES/ ENGLEWOOD MANOR/JONESBORO SOUTH AND NORTH/ RESCUE VILLA AKA 4TH WARD/ NOT TO MENTION BANKHEAD COURT/ BOWEN HOMES/ HOLLYWOOD COURT/ ALLEN TEMPLE HAS NOT YET BEEN TORN DOWN…
R.I.P TO THE REST OF OUR PROJECTS THEY HAVE TORN DOWN
WEST-ATLANTA WE LOVE YA
JSUT TO LET YALL KNO…ATLANTA’S OWN TECHWOOD HOMES PROJECTS WERE THE FIRST PROJECTS TO BE BUILD IN AMERICA 1936-1995
READ ABOUT IT
wuz hannenin jonesboro south washington road cleavland ave shit da whole zone 3 west side dabluff admasville allen temple englewood 4th ward clayco goddamn riverdale rd. eastpoint
Ahhhh man zone 3 da long way, strong way ya hear me r.i.p all projects expecially poll creek,thomasville,mcdaniel glenn,capitol homes,jonesboro south and north and all da othas we still here tho dats real!!!!!!!!!!!!
Have you ever been to these projects? Its about time they get torn down. If I were a black man, I’d be embarrassed for my people. I actually got robbed on in the Herndon Homes just cause I took a wrong turn. Thank you city of Atlanta.
^ – Tearing the projects down ain’t gone stop you from getting robbed in this city homie.
If anything the chances are greater now, cause a LOT more people living on the streets since the city is tearing down public housing.
Fasho i tell you what we bout to see alot of mess go down because the poor folks gonna get kicked out cuz they cant afford the shit. and you cant blame no black person for being black and poor in the first place. i rep zone 1 westside six flags drive all day 20 westside of thangs. ya himme. Look rich folks are black folks too so we could see some rich black folks and not rich white folks shawty.
another thang shawty ATL gonna stay black the way it was intended in the first place from jumpstreet.
RIP BOWEN HOMES YOU KNOW YALL MY PARTNA THEM IM STR8 OFF SIMPSON ROAD-SIMPSET-RIP 350 GUNWAY MISS YA 4EVA-N-SIMPSON HOUSING-N-MY LIL SISTER DIAMOND A.K.A SAVAGE SUNRISE-1992-SUNDOWN-2009