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The Government and Housing: One City's Story
FromCivics 101
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Length:
34 minutes
Released:
Jan 31, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Atlanta was the first city to erect public housing in the United States. It started with Techwood Homes, an all-white development that went up in 1936. Sixty years later it would be torn down, along with others of the now-neglected developments that were the promise of FDR's New Deal. Akira Drake Rodriguez leads us through the story of how residents of public housing in Atlanta worked with, against and despite housing policy in their city.
Released:
Jan 31, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
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