Demolished public housing projects in Atlanta
[4] Named for George Washington Carver, the project was located near Joyland, an amusement park for black Atlantans.
[7] At the time the nation's largest turnkey project,[8] East Lake Meadows was immediately plagued by maintenance problems due to poor construction.
In addition to mixed-income housing units, the redevelopment plan included an education center, a private golf course, and various local amenities.
[11] Built in 1957,[2] Joel Chandler Harris Homes (aka "Harris Homes") was a 510 unit housing site and the last project built that was intended for white residents before the housing projects were integrated after passage of the federal Civil Rights Act in 1964.
[15] The McDaniel Glenn housing project was built in 1967, with the Martin Luther King Memorial Building (a highrise for the elderly) constructed in 1970.
[4] Located in the Centennial Hill district of Downtown Atlanta, it was joined by Clark Howell Homes (both all white) in 1940.
[4] In the run-up to the 1996 Olympics, Techwood and Clark Howell Homes were demolished and replaced by Centennial Place.
In September 2015, the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) awarded a Choice Neighborhoods Implementation Grant to revitalize the former University Homes public housing site, along with the Atlanta University Center, Ashview Heights, and the Vine City neighborhoods.
[2] Named after John W. E. Bowen, Sr.,[25][26] it included 650 units in a sprawling complex of 104 yellow brick residence buildings, A.D. Williams elementary school, a library, and a day care center.
[27] Located on Bankhead Highway (renamed Donald Lee Hollowell Parkway in 1998) just inside I-285, the site is now classified as part of the neighborhood of Brookview Heights.
On October 13, 1980 a furnace boiler exploded at the day care center, killing four children and a teacher.
Residents of Bowen Homes suspected the blast was related to the Atlanta child killings of 1979-1981, but it turned out that the boiler's water had been drained for maintenance at the end of the previous heating season and not refilled.
On October 13 the cool weather of autumn returned, the day care requested that the heat be turned on, and maintenance staff relit the boiler not realizing it was empty.
Police reports show 168 violent crimes in the six months between June 2007 and January 2008, including five murders.
Its razing made Atlanta the first major municipality in the U.S.A. to do so, and its demolition brought the city's era of large multifamily housing projects to a close.
[31][32] Built in 1970, 324 units of Englewood manor were demolished 2009 by the Atlanta Housing Authority and the land still sits empty as of 2024.
[36][37] On June 15, 2016, Atlanta Housing Authority announced a development team has been selected to create a mixed-use mixed-income community on the site, "Herndon Square".
[39] video Rapper Young Thug was raised in Jonesboro South Apartments 225 units Torn down in 2008.
[41][42] Senior citizen highrise with 150 apartments located at the southwest corner of Centennial Olympic Park Drive and North Avenue.
Named for Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the American president who with Atlanta developer Charles Forrest Palmer founded the national public housing policy.
The community is located in the 5th Congressional District of Georgia also the last remaining structure of the U-Rescue Villa housing project.
Hidden Village Homes is a 500-unit abandoned housing project once owned by the AHA located 2208 Verbena street, in northwest Atlanta.
A combined effort between the FHA and the non-profit Veteran's Corporation, it was named for a young B-24 navigator from College Park, Georgia who died in the battle of Rabaul.
