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AHA celebrates $40 million Choice grant and approves funding for hundreds of affordable units

by Maria Saporta July 26, 2023 6:22 pmJuly 26, 2023 6:28 pm

It was an Atlanta Housing Authority board meeting like none other in recent memory.
Eugene Jones, AHA’s president and CEO, announced during the board meeting that Atlanta had received an unprecedented $40 million Choice grant to revitalize the Bowen Homes neighborhood.

Master developer selected for redevelopment of Bowen Homes

by Maria Saporta October 26, 2022 5:44 pmFebruary 17, 2023 4:07 pm

The board of the Atlanta Housing Authority Wednesday selected a master developer to redevelop the 74-acre site that once housed the former Bowen Homes public housing project.

HUD boss bestows $450K planning grant for Westside Atlanta redevelopment

by Sean Keenan December 16, 2020 2:25 pmFebruary 17, 2023 3:54 pm

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson stopped by Atlanta on Tuesday to grant Atlanta Housing (AH) $450,000 in federal funding to help develop a roadmap for the revitalization of parts of Atlanta’s Westside.

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City and regional public housing authorities get spotlight at forum

by Sonam Vashi March 8, 2019 4:59 pmFebruary 17, 2023 3:41 pm

Atlanta Housing talks plan, schedule to rebuild previously demolished housing projects as mixed-income communities.

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An introduction of SaportaReport’s newest columnist – King Williams

by King Williams October 8, 2018 2:45 pmFebruary 17, 2023 3:38 pm

It started out with a simple question, “Momma, where did the people go?”

I was a young teen at the time, and the seemingly simple question perplexed my mom and also perplexed everyone else I would ask until I reached my senior year of college.

“Those people” were the people of East Lake Meadows, a public housing project on the Eastside of Atlanta which sat right in-between the city limits of Atlanta and my native city of Decatur.