City of Atlanta still working to finalize relocation plan for Forest Cove

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A child looks out from a unit at the Forest Cove apartments, where residents have lived among deteriorating units for years. (Stephannie Stokes/WABE)

Atlanta’s housing and economic development agencies are all collaborating on a plan to relocate residents from the deteriorating Forest Cove apartments in southeast Atlanta.

The city has said it has identified at least 170 units at properties, all connected to the Atlanta Housing Authority, for the 211 families who remain at Forest Cove.

But tenants at the complex, which has some of the city’s worst conditions, still don’t know when that plan could begin.