Atlanta close to tearing down last housing project

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Atlanta close to tearing down last housing project

The nation's bulldozer attack on crime and poverty will soon make Atlanta — home of the first public housing development — the first major city to eliminate all of its large housing projects.

Cities from Boston to Los Angeles are following its lead. For more than 15 years, housing officials across the country have been razing the projects where some 1.2 million families live and replacing them with a mix of higher-rent and subsidized apartments and homes.

Money Quote: "Most of the displaced residents have received vouchers to put them in privately owned housing. The Department of Housing and Urban Development acknowledges, however, that it doesn't know what happened to thousands of families."

So HUD hears that people in housing projects are "disproportionately affected by crime" and their solution is to get rid of the housing projects without the slightest bit of concern for where these (often poor and black) residents turn up??