HUD gives Atlanta $250K to improve AUC neighborhoods
Atlanta is one of 17 American cities to be awarded the U.S. Housing and Urban Development’s new Choice Neighborhoods Initiative grant.
The city was awarded $250,000 to transform the neighborhood around the Atlanta University Center into a sustainable mixed-income and mixed-use neighborhood.
The Atlanta University Center neighborhood is home to the country’s largest concentration of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HCBUs). But the neighborhood is characterized by poverty, lack of jobs, troubled public schools, and poor quality housing.
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Ernie Suggs is an enterprise reporter covering race and culture for the AJC since 1997. A 1990 graduate of N.C. Central University and a 2009 Harvard University Nieman Fellow, he is also the former vice president of the National Association of Black Journalists. His obsession with Prince, Spike Lee movies, Hamilton and the New York Yankees is odd.
