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Blighted : A Story of People, Politics, and an American Housing Miracle / Margaret Stagmeier.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stagmeier, Margaret, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Housing--Georgia--Atlanta.
- Housing.
- Urban renewal--Georgia--Atlanta--Citizen participation.
- Urban renewal.
- Minorities--Housing--Georgia--Atlanta.
- Minorities.
- Stagmeier, Margaret.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (392 p.) ill
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Athens, Georgia : NewSouth Books, [2022]
- Summary:
- "Blighted offers a unique insider perspective of the political, human, and economic challenges of delivering equitable housing in a market fueled by inflationary prices, insatiable demand, and competing and often dubious agendas. [Stagmeier's success with Summerdale apartments] is a bright model of how affordable housing, education, healthcare, and social capital can interconnect to build a vibrant, sustainable equitable housing communities, nearby schools, and the community at large"--Dust jacket flap.
- Contents:
- I
- Investing in blight to remove it. The bombed-out Cleveland Avenue neighborhood
- The science of blight
- Blighted communities and the value of political will
- A walking tour of the community chaos
- Capital stack gymnastics
- how we raised 9.6 million dollar to purchase Summerdale
- II
- Effects of blight on those who live and work in it. Virginia Humphries
- the longest surviving tenant
- Sharon Allen
- the phantom tenant in Apartment D-12
- Melinda Wyatt
- the blighted tenant
- The Atlanta police lieutenant and the drug kingpin
- Dr. Payne
- Cleveland Avenue Elementary School
- Kingston Humphries
- the traumatized tenant
- III
- Re-sifting the community social capital. The physical inspection
- Purchase and management takeover
- Lucy Hamby and the wild west
- the first 30 days
- Taming the drug kingpin in Unit D-12
- The federal compliance burden on equitable housing
- The management office
- The toxic community culture
- Kristin Hemmingway
- the children and Star-C after-school program
- 'I have lived here for 22 years'
- Pest infestations management
- Crime and security
- Melinda Wyatt and the blighted mentality
- Jeff Miller and the tedious permitting process
- Education and the Star-C after-school program
- The eviction of Melinda Wyatt
- The replacement criminals
- crime and security
- Rebuilding social capital
- IV
- Epilogue. Change gonna come
- Summerdale survives the COVID-19 pandemic
- Solutions.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 1-58838-484-5
- OCLC:
- 1369062682
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