Brett Theodos, a senior fellow at the Urban Institute, says throughout the nation, cities were racialized and segregated by public housing and there have been attempts to revitalize — but nothing as significant as what happened with the East Lake community in Atlanta.
On Friday’s edition of “Closer Look,” Theodos talked with program host Rose Scott about the findings of a new study on the East Lake Initiative, one of the nation’s first efforts to convert public housing into a mixed-income community.
The Urban Institute is looking at the differences in East Lake relative to the differences in other places, said Theodos.
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