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Techwood Homes New Georgia Encyclopedia; Techwood history at artery.org; Atlanta Housing Interplay; Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. GA-2257, "Techwood Homes (Public Housing), Bounded by North Avenue, Parker Street, William Street & Lovejoy Street, Atlanta, Fulton County, GA", 30 photos, 4 measured drawings, 46 data pages, 6 photo caption pages, and 24 other entries for individual ...
This set a precedent of public housing in Atlanta being used to shape the racial and economic composition of communities in areas of interest to the elite. Techwood Homes, late 1930s. Not only was Techwood Homes the first public housing project in Atlanta, it was also the first permanent public housing project in the United States. [6]
The East Lake Meadows public housing project was a 654 unit community built in 1971 and was one of the most infamous of all of Atlanta's public housing. [7] At the time the nation's largest turnkey project, [8] East Lake Meadows was immediately plagued by maintenance problems due to poor construction. [7]
One section of Lakewood Heights is Oak Knoll, which was noted in a 1937 meeting between Techwood Homes organizer Charles Forrest Palmer, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, first lady Eleanor Roosevelt and Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. Roosevelt was delighted that private enterprise—backed by guarantees the Federal Housing Administration—could provide good homes at ...
Julia C. Lathrop Homes is a Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) public housing project located along the line between the Lincoln Park and North Center neighborhoods on the north side of Chicago, Illinois, United States. It is bordered by the neighborhoods of Bucktown and Roscoe Village.
Robert Taylor Homes was a public housing project in the Bronzeville neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois from 1962 to 2007. The largest housing project in the United States, it consisted of 28 virtually identical high-rises, set out in a linear plan for two miles (3 km), with the high-rises regularly configured in a horseshoe shape of three in each block.
The city of Atlanta, Georgia is made up of 243 neighborhoods officially defined by the city. [1] These neighborhoods are a mix of traditional neighborhoods, subdivisions , or groups of subdivisions. The neighborhoods are grouped by the city planning department into 25 neighborhood planning units (NPUs).
Rockwell Gardens was a Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) public housing project located in the East Garfield Park neighborhood on the Near West Side of Chicago, Illinois, United States. [2] It was the first public housing development in the United States to be constructed using both federal and state funds. [ 3 ]