Metro Atlanta
The trouble at Bowen Homes
The Bowen Homes housing project in northwest Atlanta soon will be a ghost town; it's on a fast track for demolition.
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Mario Evans, 23, wears a shirt for his friend who was killed at Bowen Homes in Atlanta in December. Residents of the housing project soon will be relocated and the project demolished. Since the mid-1990s, the Atlanta Housing Authority has been on a mission to wipe out concentrated poverty by tearing down housing projects and replacing them with mixed-income developments.
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