Atlanta Housing Authority officials have set a date to begin demolishing the last of the city's large public housing developments. Officials will begin the first phase of the demolition of Bowen Homes next week. Officials will mark the occasion with a ceremony on June 3. The destruction is part of a city plan to erase concentrated poverty by demolishing what officials say have become crime-infested public housing developments. Atlanta was the first city in the nation to create public housing during the Great Depression. The city is on course to become, in 2010, the first to have eliminated all of its large public housing projects.
(Associated Press)
(Associated Press)
