Former Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin : Q&A

[Oscar Knight]

www.ajc.com/news/news/local/former-atlanta-mayor-shirley-franklin-focus-on-com/nSTTR/

Q: But tearing down big housing projects doesn’t always work, does it? Bankhead is still struggling.

Franklin :A- The answer in East Lake is that one piece is not enough. You’ve got to have a good school. You’ve got to have a safe city. You’ve got to rebuild in a comprehensive or holistic way. Once you have mixed-income housing, you’ve changed the dynamic because now you’ve got people with disposable income. You’ve also got to have services for people with limited means. So, you include after-school and teen and summer programs.

When I moved to Atlanta in 1972, East Lake was a place where police officers and the fire department didn’t want to go. It was as bad as anything you’d ever seen.

....My question : And where was these people relocated to ?

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East Lake is better now?

[Oscar Knight]

"20-Point Plan To Depopulate Black Atlanta"

www.drrobertbullard.com/blog/item/26-20-point-plan-to-depopulate-black-atlanta.html

"Twenty Point Plan to Depopulate Black Atlanta"

urbanhabitat.org/18-2/bullard

The Exodus of Blacks in Atlanta

The decline in major cities' black populations is "one of the most important trends out of the 2010 Census, and I do think it's a long-term trend," says Mike Alexander, research division chief for the Atlanta Regional Commission, a planning agency.

From 2000 to 2010, the city of Atlanta's black population fell by 29,746 people. During that period, the black population in the broader Atlanta metro area rose by 40%, an addition of 490,982. Those numbers tell Alexander that blacks are relocating in suburbs, not in other cities. "This black migration to the suburbs" mirrors what whites have been doing for decades, he says.

www.usatoday.com/news/nation/census/2011-05-20-chicago-blacks-exodus_n.htm

Game Over

SUBURBAN DIVERSITY

Clayton's transformation has been both startling and ironic. Startling because it happened so fast, ironic because Clayton developed as a suburb largely as a result of the first great wave of "white flight" out of Atlanta in the 1960s. Now there's a second wave, this time out of Clayton. Consider the numbers: In 1990, Clayton was still 72 percent white (in the 1970s, it had been 90 percent white). Today, whites make up just 36 percent of the population; African Americans are nearly 57 percent. In November, Clayton County will elect a new group of county commissioners, and the chances are good a majority will be black. Said one African-American candidate for commission chair, "This is the watershed election."

www.governing.com/columns/urban-notebook/Game-Over.html

Posted: Aug 22, 2012

City of Atlanta demolishes problem apartment building

www.cbsatlanta.com/story/19341088/city-of-atlanta-to-demolish-problem-apartment-building

Last December, the City of Atlanta said as many as 200 buildings would be taken down within a year's time.

CBS Atlanta News reporter Bernard Watson asked the city's Code Enforcement Department Tough Questions about how far workers had gotten.

"How many buildings are coming down today?" Watson asked.

"We have four properties coming down today," said Maj. C.J. Davis, the head of the city's Code Enforcement Department.

"How many are waiting for permits?" Watson asked.

"Fifteen," said Davis.

[Oscar Knight]

Atlanta Demolition

www.atlantademolition.com/projects.htm

Atlanta's demolished projects

projects.ajc.com/gallery/view/metro/atlanta/atlanta-housing-projects/

Demolished public housing projects in Atlanta

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demolished_public_housing_projects_in_Atlanta

[Oscar Knight]

Oct 4, 2012 18:26:19 GMT -6 @19and41 said:

East Lake is better now?

.....I doubt this; Now the Criminals has wealthy residents to rob. This is one ploy as how the Government is spreading the wealth.

‘Jack Boys’ on trial for month-long crime spree

Oct. 3, 2012

Alleged members of the so-called “Jack Boys” gang – blamed for a violent, murderous criminal rampage through east Atlanta neighborhoods in the fall of 2010 – had their day in court Wednesday as a Fulton County jury heard opening statements.

Read More :

www.ajc.com/news/news/crime-law/jack-boys-on-trial-for-month-long-crime-spree/nSSnk/

..........Who is paying for this Trial ?


...The very same Tax Paying Citizens that is getting Robbed everyday !!!!