Demolition of Bowen Homes starts this week

Atlanta Housing Authority officials will have a ceremony today to mark the beginning of the demolition of Bowen Homes, one of the last of the city’s large public housing developments.

The destruction is part of a city plan to erase concentrated poverty by demolishing what officials say have become crime-infested public housing developments.

Atlanta was the first city in the nation to create public housing during the Great Depression.

The city is on course to become, in 2010, the first to have eliminated all of its large public housing projects.

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