Mayor Launches Atlanta Blight Initiative With A Demolition
The first code enforcement complaint on this house came in April, 2012. The city began demolishing it on April 5, 2018.
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Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms is pushing to get rid of blighted homes in the city. She launched her initiative at an event in Collier Heights on Thursday.
“You deserve to live in a community that is really the caliber that it was when so many of you bought your homes 40, 50 years ago,” she told residents, standing near a house that was about to be demolished.
Harold Morton, president of the Collier Heights Neighborhood Association said the house had been an issue for years.
“It’s a eyesore. It’s also dangerous to our community,” he said.
Then crews started demolishing the house.
City officials say they hope to make the code enforcement process faster, and they plan to tear down more blighted properties in the next week.
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