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‘Black Mecca’ no longer? Atlanta prices cause families to move out of the city
Posted on 6/11/25 at 2:03 pm
Posted on 6/11/25 at 2:03 pm
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Mecca” any longer, according to a national study.
The reason - Black people can’t afford to live in the city anymore or don’t want to pay inflated prices.
We spoke to several Atlanta natives and those who moved here for college and didn’t want to leave. They all feel forced out of the city, like Latresa Chaney.
“I grew here – I wasn’t trying to leave OK ... Hey if you ain’t rich – you can’t live here – you got to go somewhere,” said Latresa Chaney.
She told Channel 2’s Tyisha Fernandes that for the first time, she had to move her family out of the city - to Decatur.
“I’m transitioning my children from school to school behind trying to have stable housing,” said Chaney.
She lived in the Forest Cove Apartments until city officials condemned the complex and tore it down.
She told Fernandes, elected officials promised to relocate her in the city using her Section 8 voucher, which she says never happened.
“You displaced 300 families ... I felt so let down – like I’ve invested my life here,” said Chaney
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According to data from the National Community Reinvestment Coalition - Atlanta had the second highest amount of census tracks to flip from majority Black to white between 1980 - 2020. Only Washington, D.C had more.
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Posted on 6/11/25 at 2:05 pm to SPEEDY
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Civil Rights Activist Devin Barrington-Ward says people who made up the Black Mecca didn’t move out to the suburbs because they wanted to. He said a lack of policy displaced them.
For the past two decades, Ward says elected officials have made it easier for out-of-state investors to afford homes, rather than homegrown people.
He says it’s the reason why investors own 30% of single-family homes in the city.
“When we see what type of money is being given to corporate developers – as far as tax breaks from the city and the county - of course Black folks would no longer be able to afford to live in the city of Atlanta. These are policy decisions being made by people who are in elected office,” said Ward.
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The last Republican mayor of Atlanta was Nedom L. Angier, who served from 1877 to 1879. There has not been a Republican mayor of Atlanta since the Reconstruction era
Posted on 6/11/25 at 2:06 pm to SPEEDY
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The last Republican mayor of Atlanta was Nedom L. Angier, who served from 1877 to 1879. There has not been a Republican mayor of Atlanta since the Reconstruction era
We know... its obvious, but not for the reasons they think
Posted on 6/11/25 at 2:08 pm to SPEEDY
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I’ve invested my life here
quote:hmmmm…sounds to me like others have invested for her
using her Section 8 voucher
Posted on 6/11/25 at 2:14 pm to cgrand
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hmmmm…sounds to me like others have invested for her
The *exact* two quotes I was going to extract and comment on, ya beat me to it!
Posted on 6/11/25 at 2:14 pm to Codythetiger
Atlanta mayoral elections along with city council elections are non partisan. Nobody runs as a 'republican' or a 'democrat'.
Posted on 6/11/25 at 2:15 pm to SPEEDY
I don't really get the point of this
People are being forced out of their dilapidated areas of South Atlanta and into other crappy areas right outside of the city?
The difference between the condemned place she lived in an some other soon to be condemned place in East Point or College Park or City of South Fulton is zero. "I built my life in this to be condemned apartment complex surrounded by nothing and now I have to move 6 miles away" sounds dumb.
Now black people moving out of gentrifying areas and not having any middle class places to go inside the City of Atlanta is a thing (or was 15 years ago), but that applies to everyone and every city.
People are being forced out of their dilapidated areas of South Atlanta and into other crappy areas right outside of the city?
The difference between the condemned place she lived in an some other soon to be condemned place in East Point or College Park or City of South Fulton is zero. "I built my life in this to be condemned apartment complex surrounded by nothing and now I have to move 6 miles away" sounds dumb.
Now black people moving out of gentrifying areas and not having any middle class places to go inside the City of Atlanta is a thing (or was 15 years ago), but that applies to everyone and every city.
Posted on 6/11/25 at 2:15 pm to SPEEDY
that article is stupid.
Atlanta has been called the black Mecca because of its disproportionately large black upper and middle class…then they go and interview a woman with section 8 vouchers for a condemned apartment building?
Atlanta has been called the black Mecca because of its disproportionately large black upper and middle class…then they go and interview a woman with section 8 vouchers for a condemned apartment building?
Posted on 6/11/25 at 2:16 pm to SPEEDY
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had to move her family out of the city - to Decatur.
Posted on 6/11/25 at 2:34 pm to SPEEDY
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like I’ve invested my life here
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using her Section 8 voucher
No, you didn't.
Cgrand beat me too it.
This post was edited on 6/11/25 at 2:37 pm
Posted on 6/11/25 at 2:53 pm to SPEEDY
Moving from a condemned inner city apartment to Decatur a few stops down the MARTA track is an upgrade, not displacement.
Posted on 6/11/25 at 2:57 pm to SPEEDY
might as well just fire up the Bat Signal to summon SteelersBravesbandwagonDwag/Lexis retarded dad to join the thread.
Posted on 6/11/25 at 2:57 pm to SPEEDY
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He said a lack of policy displaced them.
Weren't they in charge of policy?
Posted on 6/11/25 at 3:39 pm to SPEEDY
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She told Fernandes, elected officials promised to relocate her in the city using her Section 8 voucher, which she says never happened
Section 8. Free to stop and get a place of your own and get off the govt tit.
Crap should have read more before posting.
This post was edited on 6/11/25 at 3:42 pm
Posted on 6/11/25 at 4:36 pm to ronricks
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Atlanta mayoral elections along with city council elections are non partisan. Nobody runs as a 'republican' or a 'democrat'.
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Though a political party is listed where known, the mayoral election is officially non-partisan, so candidates do not represent their party when elected. Since 1879, all mayors of Atlanta have been Democrats.
Posted on 6/11/25 at 4:44 pm to SPEEDY
Move to Clayton
Posted on 6/11/25 at 8:26 pm to cgrand
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that article is stupid.
Atlanta has been called the black Mecca because of its disproportionately large black upper and middle class…then they go and interview a woman with section 8 vouchers for a condemned apartment building?
Thinking the same thing.
WSB should be better than that.
Posted on 6/12/25 at 8:18 am to SPEEDY
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For the past two decades, Ward says elected officials have made it easier for out-of-state investors to afford homes, rather than homegrown people.
How, specifically, did they do that?
Also, why do people feel like they have a right to live somewhere in perpetuity with no change to the area or their COL, or move somewhere and do so for the price that they want to pay? That's not how the world works and a place being expensive to buy or rent doesn't mean something is broken.
Posted on 6/12/25 at 8:21 am to AUFANATL
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Moving from a condemned inner city apartment to Decatur a few stops down the MARTA track is an upgrade, not displacement.
But now she's going to be so much further from her job.
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