Where are the 43 apartment complexes identified as dangerous and unhealthy?
Prosecutors marked 18 of the complexes as top priority as they devise strategies for attacking the problems and holding landlords accountable. But the list isn’t final, and it doesn’t include numerous other troubled complexes identified by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Dangerous Dwellings: An AJC investigation
As violent crime escalated in the city and its suburbs, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution sought to uncover why so many of them took place at certain apartment complexes.
Reporters embarked on a year-long effort which included collecting crime data from 15 area law enforcement agencies and code enforcement records from 19 jurisdictions. They also analyzed lawsuits, property records, corporate documents and files from local and state housing agencies. More than 250 persistently unsafe and unhealthy apartment complexes were identified.
The findings are detailed in a three-part series, Dangerous Dwellings, available free on AJC.com and the AJC ePaper.
About the Authors
Alan Judd is a former investigative reporter for the AJC. He has written about persistently dangerous apartment complexes in metro Atlanta, juvenile justice, child welfare, sexual abuse by physicians, patient deaths in state psychiatric hospitals, and other topics.
