Eastlake Meadows, Atlanta

[Dusty Bake Activate]

 

[88m3]

cheering gentrification now are we?

 

[Robbie3000]

I grew up in East Atlanta and that project was no joke. Now they have PGA tournaments there. It's crazy. The gentrification of East Lake meadows was a blueprint for all the gentrification we see across the country.

On a personal note at the kids from East Lake that I went to middle school with.

 

[NZA]

"had i been born there, i probably would be one of those people in jail...if they coulda caught me..."

 

[2Quik4UHoes]

Zone 6 East Alanna shyt, bet they ain't get Bouldercrest...

 

[AVXL]

I grew up in East Atlanta and that project was no joke. Now they have PGA tournaments there. It's crazy. The gentrification of East Lake meadows was a blueprint for all the gentrification we see across the country.

On a personal note at the kids from East Lake that I went to middle school with.

I used to caddy at East Lake back in HS, amazing how different that community is now...it hasn't reached all of East Atlanta, but that area is definitely a poster child for how gentrification can completely change a community. Guaranteed most of them hoodlums in the video either moved to ClayCo or Decatur

s/o to my Cedar Grove brehs

 

[NZA]

so they didnt solve the problem, just moved it elsewhere?

 

[88m3]

so they didnt solve the problem, just moved it elsewhere?

that's the general practice...

 

[NZA]

that's the general practice...

but these fools in the video are acting like it was solving their problems

 

[ProfessionallyTrill]

They tore down the projects down here but they all got vouchers and relocated to Clayton (Riverdale. Morrow, Jonesboro, Lovejoy)

 

[theworldismine13]

but these fools in the video are acting like it was solving their problems

it did solve part of the problem, its better to have crime spread out then to have it concentrated in one area, overall crime goes down when that happens

and the very concept of the government owning your home represents a problem in and of itself

 

[NZA]

it did solve part of the problem, its better to have crime spread out then to have it concentrated in one area, overall crime goes down when that happens

this sounds like a good time for ATL posters to chime in. did you notice a net decrease in crime, or did a new hotspot emerge after this place was gentrified?

 

[Dusty Bake Activate]

this sounds like a good time for ATL posters to chime in. did you notice a net decrease in crime, or did a new hotspot emerge after this place was gentrified?

I know that after they tore down most of the projects in my city where I grew up, which were all open-air drug markets, violent crime went down. I think that's the case across most of the country, with few exceptions.

Now whether or not that's causation or correlation is something that can be debated. But I personally lean toward thinking tearing down projects and replacing them with mixed-income housing and giving people vouchers is better than leaving them with all that concentrated poverty and economic deprivation.

 

[NZA]

I know that after they tore down most of the projects in my city where I grew up, which were all open-air drug markets, violent crime went down. I think that's the case across most of the country, with few exceptions.

Now whether or not that's causation or correlation is something that can be debated. But I personally lean toward thinking tearing down projects and replacing them with mixed-income housing and giving vouchers is better than leaving them with all that concentrated poverty and economic deprivation.

that's my initial reaction. i tend to favor what they do with section 8, but i dont actually know anything empirical about whether or not breaking this stuff up leads to making some other neighborhood more dangerous. gentrification always happens, and some neighborhoods are always messed up. if we really dig deep we may see that other forces do more to cause net reductions in crime. they are supposed to have done this with southside chicago to no positive result that i am aware of...

 

[88m3]

but these fools in the video are acting like it was solving their problems

I don't think it works just moves the problem elsewhere...

vic has a point about spread it out but ehhh