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The Gentrification of Atlanta

KPFA - Against the Grain

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The Foreclosure Crisis in Metro Atlanta

With the foreclosure crisis, we had this flood of foreclosures. And those properties started flowing to investors. Instead of front loading affordable housing, they front loaded trail development and park development. So that's a loss really a transfer of land wealth because many of these former homeowners were Black and Latinx.

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