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Tenants Locked Out in Housing Redevelopment

By AAN Staff
may 15, 2002  05:58 pm
Tenants Locked Out in Housing Redevelopment
Mara Shalhoup in Creative Loafing Atlanta looks at how one of the country's most lauded housing agencies rebuilt the homes of the poor to better serve the middle class. She talks to former tenants of public housing who are now shut out of the "mixed" development. "It was all right for me to raise my kids over there in Carver Homes when it was a hellhole," one former resident says. "Now that they've remodeled and did everything, we ain't good enough to come back." That's OK to the Atlanta Housing Authority. "Anybody who finds it difficult to get in," AHA spokesman Rick White tells Shalhoup., "we probably don't want to have as a tenant anyway."
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