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Cattledog

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Wed Jan 29, 2020, 05:52 PM Jan 2020

East Lake Meadows

East lake Meadows was known as "Little Vietnam" during the 8os because of the violence.

In October of 1970, the Atlanta Housing Authority opened a public housing community on the edge of Atlanta called East Lake Meadows. Over the next 25 years, many thousands of low-income Atlantans, mostly African-American, would call it home.

Residents moved in for hundreds of different reasons and created strong bonds despite the many challenges they faced. But as public housing in America was abandoned and stigmatized, and a crack wave swept through the neighborhood, East Lake Meadows became nearly uninhabitable. In the mid-1990s, Atlanta bulldozed the housing project to make way for new mixed-income housing, as government and philanthropic funds poured into the area in an effort to create a thriving community.

Through the stories of former residents, East Lake Meadows: A Public Housing Story gives voice to some of the most marginalized people in our society and raises critical questions about how we, as a nation, have created concentrated poverty and limited housing opportunity for African Americans, and what can be done to address it.

Executive Produced by Ken Burns, East Lake Meadows: A Public Housing Story is a feature-length documentary directed and produced by Sarah Burns and David McMahon. It will air on PBS March 24, 2020.

http://kenburns.com/films/east-lake-meadows-a-public-housing-story/?fbclid=IwAR0vzEeysA0nuHPtvnvkINlIYDOAHiRiWRKKRI0iGv_2dAG8Vs_OA63sP_s
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East Lake Meadows (Original Post) Cattledog Jan 2020 OP
Putting it on the list. It's going to be great! flying_wahini Jan 2020 #1
Sounds very worthwhile!❤ Thanks! Karadeniz Jan 2020 #2
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