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Figure 3. Typical Slum Homes, Gilmer Street Looking West, Circa 1940 Demolished to Construct Grady Homes Figure 4. Slum Property East of Atlanta cleared to construct Grady Homes, Circa 1942 22 | P a g e
During focus group interviews, long-time residents of Grady indicated that the development was once a vibrant and friendly community that sponsored many adult and youth oriented activities. Administrative records indicate that in 1994, adults who lived at Grady were more upwardly mobile than were adults who lived at most of AHA's other large public housing developments—at least as measured by their employment rate and household income. Focus group participants indicated that they loved the neighborly atmosphere and children especially enjoyed participating in the social events that were organized by management and the tenant Association on a regular basis. However, by the mid-to late 1980’s the quality of life in all AHA’s housing development began deteriorating rapidly. The residents and external research attributed the decline (which was a national phenomenon) to a number of factors. Among the most significant was the escalation in crimes associated with the influx of crack cocaine in urban areas and especially at large, densely populated housing projects. This escalation occurred during the same period in which the City of Atlanta experienced declining crime rates. In 1992, the Atlanta Police Department logged 5,654 crime incident reports and rolling dispatches to the footprint of Techwood Homes and Clark Howell Homes – AHA’s two most severely distressed public housing projects (AHA, 1993: 82-83). That same year, Atlanta's violent crime rate was five times the national average and ranked first in the nation. AHA’s 25 public housing projects alone accounted for 20 percent of the City of Atlanta's violent crimes and 28 percent of its aggravated assaults. By 1994, the average crime rate at AHA’s 25 public housing projects was 15 times the national average – at Techwood Homes and Clark Howell Homes the violent crime rate was 37 times the national average. In 1992 the Atlanta Police Department also reported that 276 crimes classified as Type I crimes occurred on the footprint of Grady Homes and 206 occurred at University Homes. In 2001, Grady homes recorded 375 Type I crimes, which represented an increase of 36%. The head of households at most public housing projects were unmarried women. They were a particularly vulnerable population. The aging and deteriorating apartments units were poorly maintained by AHA. Broken hallway doors, blown-out hallway lights and street lights, inoperable elevators, and poor security allowed these developments to become bases of operation for drug lords who usually did not live at the development. Additionally, playgrounds were unsafe and unsanitary, apartments were infested with rodents, heating and plumbing were in disrepair, and hundreds of maintenance work orders were backlogged. The physical structures were also plagued by 23 | P a g e
Page 1 and 2: FINAL REPORT Impact of the Mixed-In
Page 3 and 4: Executive Summary Public housing in
Page 5 and 6: Finding 2 Evidence Finding 3 Eviden
Page 7 and 8: Finding 4 Evidence Average rent pai
Page 9 and 10: who received housing vouchers had o
Page 11 and 12: them much more flexibility to choos
Page 13 and 14: Comparing Grady to other communitie
Page 15 and 16: Section 1 Purpose and Background Pu
Page 17 and 18: In exchange for MTW designation, HU
Page 19 and 20: Total 48 48 71 These radical change
Page 21: Section 2 AHA’s Rationale for Rev
Page 25 and 26: AHA’s Mixed-income Revitalization
Page 27 and 28: Figure 6 Veranda at Auburn Pointe,
Page 29 and 30: To be eligible to move back into a
Page 31 and 32: Section 3 Grady Revitalization Mast
Page 33 and 34: the city. The development was also
Page 35 and 36: Section 4 Methodology and Definitio
Page 37 and 38: Antoine Graves Annex (Graves Annex)
Page 39 and 40: 39 | P a g e repeated measurements
Page 41 and 42: Section 5 2004 Baseline Characteris
Page 43 and 44: Figure 9 Number of Householders and
Page 45 and 46: G2 consisted of Antoine Graves and
Page 47 and 48: Figure 13 Number of Householders an
Page 49 and 50: Figure 16 Household income characte
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Page 53 and 54: single-family home was $193,095 and
Page 55 and 56: Section 6 Change in the Type of Hou
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Page 59 and 60: Figure 30b CHANGE IN TYPE OF ASSIST
Page 61 and 62: Section 7 Change in the Indicators
Page 63 and 64: Figure 34 HOUSEHOLD INCOME FOR ALL
Page 65 and 66: Figure 37 AVERAGE RENT PAYMENTS FOR
Page 67 and 68: Figure 40 Figure 41 AVERAGE PUBLIC
Page 69 and 70: Section 8 Impact of CATALYST on Emp
Page 71 and 72: Figure 44 Figure 44 EMPLOYMENT RATE
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Figure 46 AVERAGE HOURS WORKED PER
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public assistance have a much lower
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Correlated Data Summary Number of L
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Tests of Model Effects Type III Wal
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Figure 51 EARNINGS OF HOUSEHOLDERS
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Other Services Rehabilitation and C
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Figure 51 Figure 52 NEIGHBORHOOD PO
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percent of the population with only
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89 | P a g e Map 1: Location of Ori
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Poverty Deconcentration One effecti
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Figure 58 POVERTY RATE OF ORIGIN AN
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clearly how these families made a s
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MAP 6 Map 7 illustrates that in 201
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the CAI scores at the point of orig
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Householders who are in a Port Out
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Case Processing Summary N Percent C
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o In 2009 there were 84 HOHs who pa
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A minority of householders moved in
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A majority of persons moved out of
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Total Participants 97 94 69 Partici
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Figure 63 Number of Years since Mov
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Regarding the difficulty of finding
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Figures 68, 69 and 70 record indivi
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Figures 71, 72, and 73 record respo
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Figures 74 and 75 record responses
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Figure 77 Feeling about Children's
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4. When you first heard you had to
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4. What other kind of help did you
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participants who have moved multipl
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• Apartments: too small, mold/mil
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o Assigned counselor Housing enviro
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Most of the participants reported r
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environment. However, householders
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