Nov 8, 2010 | Washington Times
HUSOCK: Reinventing public housing
It is easy to despair over the persistence of black poverty. The social problem that just won't go away has resisted even the election of our first black president.
City, nonprofit team up to reclaim former crack houses as affordable apartments
Kashira Martin always wanted a porch. Enlarge photo Jason Getz, jgetz@ajc.com Kashira Martin, left, visits with Beacon of Hope CEO & Executive Director Lydia Meredith on Martin's front porch of her renovated home along Boulevard in the Old Fourth Ward Friday morning in Atlanta.
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City, nonprofit team up to reclaim former crack houses as affordable apartments
Kashira Martin always wanted a porch. Enlarge photo Jason Getz, jgetz@ajc.com Kashira Martin, left, visits with Beacon of Hope CEO & Executive Director Lydia Meredith on Martin's front porch of her renovated home along Boulevard in the Old Fourth Ward Friday morning in Atlanta.
Crews work at demolishing Bankhead Courts, an Atlanta housing project, on Feb. 24, 2010.
Crews demolish what used to be Bankhead Courts in Atlanta, a housing project near the boundary line of Fulton and Cobb counties.