East Lake Meadows, A Public Housing Story: A Film by Ken Burns

Ken Burns and PBS
June 7, 2024

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In 1970, the Atlanta Housing Authority opened a public housing community called East Lake Meadows. Before Atlanta bulldozed the housing project in the mid-1990s to make way for new mixed-income housing, many thousands of low-income Atlantans, mostly Black, called it home. Through the stories of former residents, this feature-length film raises critical questions about how we, as a nation, have created concentrated poverty and limited housing opportunity for Black Americans, and what can be done to address it.

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