This week, a coalition of community groups, housing justice advocates and the City of Atlanta partnered to clear the Old Wheat Street encampment. It’s an initiative that’s been in the works for months.
A total of 30 people were placed in temporary and stable housing. The move comes months after Cornelius Taylor died in the area, when city workers brought a bulldozer through without checking tents in the area for people inside.
Mawuli Davis of the Davis Bozeman Johnson Law, who is representing Taylor’s family, and Tim Franzen, the program director for American Friends Service Community’s Atlanta Economic Justice Program, an organization part of the coalition, were guests on Friday’s edition of “Closer Look.”
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