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In November 1994, the Atlanta Empowerment Zone was established, a 10-year, $250 million federal program to revitalize Atlanta's 34 poorest neighborhoods including the Bluff. Scathing reports from both the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Georgia Department of Community Affairs revealed corruption, waste, bureaucratic ...
The city of Atlanta, Georgia is made up of 243 neighborhoods officially defined by the city. [1] These neighborhoods are a mix of traditional neighborhoods, subdivisions, or groups of subdivisions. The neighborhoods are grouped by the city planning department into 25 neighborhood planning units (NPUs).
Gentrification in Atlanta has improved or completely revitalized many neighborhoods that were dealing with high levels of crime, loitering, littering, squatters, inventory of abandoned homes, food deserts, lack of green spaces, low commercial investments, low neighborhood activism, low performing public schools, and stagnant or declining ...
As if foreclosure-wracked neighborhoods aren't suffering enough, it seems they're also paying more in taxes. According to a study released yesterday by the Atlanta Neighborhood Development ...
The Atlanta Empowerment Zone was established in November 1994 as a 10-year, $250 million federal program to revitalize Atlanta's 34 poorest neighborhoods. Scathing reports from both the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Georgia Department of Community Affairs revealed corruption, waste, bureaucratic incompetence, and interference by mayor Bill Campbell.
The East Lake Meadows public housing project was a 654 unit community built in 1971 and was one of the most infamous of all of Atlanta's public housing. [7] At the time the nation's largest turnkey project, [8] East Lake Meadows was immediately plagued by maintenance problems due to poor construction. [7]
Neighborhoods of new black homeowners took root, helping alleviate the enormous strain of the lack of housing available to African Americans. Atlanta's western and southern neighborhoods transitioned to majority black — between 1950 and 1970 the number of census tracts that were at least ninety percent black tripled.
Neighborhood Population (2010) NPU; Adair Park: 1,331: V Adams Park: 1,763: R Adamsville: 2,403: H Almond Park: 1,020: G Ansley Park: 2,277: E Ardmore: 756: E Argonne ...