Blog: Housing
03-27-15
A Recipe for Revitalization: How an Atlanta Success Story is Being Replicated Nationwide
In the early 1990s, the East Lake neighborhood was one of Atlanta’s poorest. The East Lake Meadows housing project was the neighborhood’s epicenter of poverty and rampant crime. In 1995, local real estate developer, entrepreneur and philanthropist Tom Cousins first proposed the idea of redeveloping East Lake Meadows into a mixed-use housing development. Read More
02-13-15
What, Exactly, is Gentrification?
Gentrification signifies displacement of the poor, mostly people of color. “Gentrification” is a word that urban politicians do not like and try hard not to use. Read More