After the Atlanta Housing Authority tore down the East Lake Meadows housing project at the end of the 1990s, it was replaced with a mixed-income development called The Villages of East Lake. “East Lake Meadows: A Public Housing Story” is a new documentary directed by Sarah Burns and David McMahon that tells the stories of former residents.
“We quickly recognized just telling the story of the new community was really incomplete,” said Burns. “We wanted to focus our story on the community that was there before.”
McMahon adds that other accounts of what happened in East Lake tend to look at the positive outcomes that came to the community after redevelopment.
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