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Learn the history of East Lake Meadows, a former public housing community in Atlanta. Stories from residents reveal hardship and resilience, and raise critical questions about race, poverty and who is deserving of public assistance.
In 1956, the government further enabled the middle-class movement to the suburbs through the rise of new infrastructure – the interstate highway system, used as a way to overpass and “erase” areas considered “black slums.”
Tenants in East Lake Meadows can’t get things fixed; the trash doesn’t get picked up, the grass doesn’t get cut, and raw sewage seeps into houses and playgrounds from open pits.