Atlanta Housing Authority Tour with Wayne Martin Notes by Liz

Notes by Liz

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  The Atlanta Housing Authority:
  
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    Building up structures, building up people
    
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    A real estate company providing market rate, affordable housing
    
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    Special focus on families, the elderly, and the disabled.
    
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    A subsidiary of HUD
    
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      Receives funding from HUD
      
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      Free standing
      
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      Follows HUD rules
      
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    Does not develop, but does give development rights to private developers
    
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    Creates incentives for developers
    
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      TADs: Tax Allocation Districts
      
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    Beginning to focus more on environmental issues, because lower energy use= lower operating cost
    
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  The previous model of public housing
  
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    Concentrated poverty (less disposable income) discourages businesses from entering the area
    
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    Crime rates, gang activity, prostitution
    
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    Either isolated or urban
    
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  New model of public housing
  
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    Entices businesses because of higher amount of disposable income
    
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    Also entices more private development in those areas
    
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    Allows people more freedom as to where they wish to live
    
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    Usually includes plans for new schools, a YMCA.
    
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  Perry Homes/West Highlands
  
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    Previously a 600 unit public housing project
    
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    Now an 1800 unit mixed income community with 228 public units.
    
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    Crime rate astoundingly low
    
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  Bowen Homes
  
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    Built in 1964
    
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    60 acres
    
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    160 Units
    
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    102 Buildings
    
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    Low achievement levels
    
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    Average age of a grandmother: 34 years of age
    
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    Fully relocated by early June.
    
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    Demolition began by mid-June
    
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    No current plans for redevelopment due to current economic circumstances
    
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  Techwood Homes/New Centennial
  
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    The first public housing project in the country
    
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    Originally used as a transitional home for men exiting the military
    
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    No one went from Techwood Homes to GA Tech