Video Essay: Atlanta Abandons Housing Projects

[stfuplz13]

So after eighty years the government finally realizes that gathering all the city's poverty into isolated neighborhoods was a bad idea? Bullshit. Either the government is incredibly slow and stupid, there is an ulterior motive involved, or both.

[incubus5630]

Don't come to my neighborhood we like our property values where they are.

[Conseatta]

Don't be so ignorant. You sound like a prevlige person, not all have had silver spoon in their mouth. don't pass judgement. Just about everyone in this world is one step from poverty. You have not walked in this woman shoes so you have no idea of her wants, desire and needs

If you d the history, you will find out who excatly the projects was orignated for.

[Conseatta]

Don't be so ignorant. You sound like a prevlige person, not all have had silver spoon in their mouth. don't pass judgement. Just about everyone in this world is one step from poverty. You have not walked in this woman shoes so you have no idea of her wants, desire and needs

[Abasuto]

Something like 75% of the residents in Atlanta's oldest housing projects had been there for 10 years or longer.

You mean to tell me in 10 years you could not find a 40 hour job ?

The only "project" in them is an experiment to breed human leeches and parasites and as we can see, it worked.

[scperry8]

@Abasuto - Projects breed isolation and concentrated poverty moron. People live in and die in the projects because of neglect and crime. People aspire to what they see on a daily basis, whether white/black rich/poor, all children want to be the best of what they see in their neighborhoods. It's a relative model. The "best people" in the place you grew up were bankers/accountants/wealthy working Americans. The best these kids see are hustlers, and they don't work 40hr/wk jobs.

[jab200878]

bullshit.... they want to put worthless lazy fucking people in with the working class. All these people do is just bring down the property value and breed crime.

[DOKt00n]

no matter what people say, the housing projects in atlanta and the section 8 were really fucked up places and needed to be torn down... im in valdosta now and theres some scary ass projects here with a lot of shootings and they have mixed income newer places that have little to no crime

[ObamaIsPathetic]

Gibbmee dat obama cheeze!

[absdilsey]

Send um to Dekalb and clayton co.

[slimredd88]

@absdilsey please dont lol

[Modacolorist]

How much you want to bet that is valuable land. No doubt they are going build more unneeded condos.

[miamivicepastels83]

@Modacolorist not where bowen homes was ....that's not in a high property value area, trust me

[Choklatpashun]

The should've interviewed someone else..she has the most boring voice ever. I'm referring to the educated woman...

[beagleguy69]

Guess what people; The Great Depression is over! Welfare/public housing is supposed to be a stepping stone not a permanent lifestyle! Education is the key to eliminating poverty. Christine Lee said she'd lived there her whole life. Does she not aspire to go get a nice house/apartment? I'm guessing if you live in pulic housing; grants would be as easy to obtain as "Gubbermint cheez"!! Go to school and strive to make something of yourself. Have some pride and become independent! Get off welfare!

[miamivicepastels83]

@beagleguy69 ! Welfare/public housing is supposed to be a stepping stone not a permanent lifestyle

please say it again. a temporary solution when you are going through hard times...u are NOT supposed to be there for years on end...come on now. the problem, to me, is that it's not even a location problem, it's a mindset problem

[REALCITYbred]

@beagleguy69 nice . u go to school and then u come out and there are no jobs. and ur back in the bricks

[20Frenchie]

EXCUSE MY LANGUAGE: BUT THIS SHIT MAKES ME MAD AS FUCK! HOW in the fuck you just literally tear down projects!!! HELL WHERE IN THE FUCK PEOPLE WITH LOWER INCOME GONE GO THEN! HOW THEY GONE GET RID ALL THE PROJECTS IN ATLANTA!! I mean damn where people gone go and visit their old neighborhoods at?? I BET THEY TRYING TO ...DO THAT HERE IN OHIO! HELL They might as well be doing all across UNITED STATES! I know why they tearing them down, so the rich folks can come in and move in the neighborhoods.

[poppajah]

why the fuck are you mad? that's a dumbass statement you just said because for one and this should have been the first thought that popped to your head is that the projects belongs to the GOVERNMENT. they can do whatever they want. well.. apparently many of the low income people didn't appreciate the housing they were given to aid their situation so the government took it away. nobody wanted to reach for that american dream so good that they tore that shit down. you need to grow up.

[20Frenchie]

@poppajah,Because I have the right to be mad! Hell you tell me where all the low income people gone go then! Then I will stop being mad until then, don't come at me like that for real! I mean how would you feel if someone come and tear down the neighborhood you grew up at? How would you feel if you can't pay a visit to these area? It may be the government projects, but is it right for people be without a village?

[poppajah]

lol. are you living in the projects? the projects weren't built for people to spend their lives in FOREVER. it's called public assistance for a reason. for almost all the people living in the projects, it's a place to fall back on until you're able to get on your feet and assist yourself independently. if they love the area so much, nobody's stopping them from staying there.

it's sad that you don't see what the point of the projects and for that matter, welfare is.

[20Frenchie]

I'm trying to get myself together...does that make me a bad person because I live in the projects?

[poppajah]

did i say that living in the projects makes you bad?

[20Frenchie]

You might as well say it. Because that what it sound like

[goodozog]

yes it's a rice place

[djcountry1985]

im thinking about running away to bankhead

[Mr404770678]

why would you go there?????

[20Frenchie]

@Mr404770678 Go where?

[Mr404770678]

I was refferring to djcountry1985 's comment he said he was gonna runaway and run to bankhead

[20Frenchie]

Oh okay..lol

[FranksterTube]

They should tear down those slums and the bums that live there should be converted to fuel.

[VVIIDDEEOO2006]

so where are these folk being resettled???

[Mr404770678]

any and everywhere.....now the metro area is gettin more dangerous but its strange I heard after they tore down a couple of Atlanta's projects residents came up missing!

[glasax7]

the southside (clayton county )

[VerbiVeritatis]

This is crazy. Does this woman actually think that taking people out of a community that the inhabitants pretty much let fall apart and putting them into "regular" housing next to the individuals that have taken responsibility for their properties from the beginning will make them change? Does history show nothing? Does the current state of affairs not give her any clue as to what will happen? 90% of the people who live in sub prime housing do so for a reason.

[ludicer]

put them in jail !! problem sloved

[Vidtrac]

Cursing and disrespect on an international forum... OK, off point. On point... crime and drugs so out of hand, decent people with families who were assigned to these "slums" just wanted peace and safety for their kids with the hookers and dealers gone- now their gone, but to where?

[tremone21]

there will always be crime rather its in the projects or regular neighborhoods that have houses. but that shows that these drug dealers and killers destroy their own communties. the same damn guys that young black guys worship. they don't realize that people get tired of all this black on black shit. niggas need to stick together and make money. drug dealers are not doing great business. its bad business if they out there killing because this is a result of it all.

[poppajah]

and black people need to stop calling themselves and each other the n word. if you're trying to make it out there in a world that already doesn't respect you cause you're black, you sure as hell are defeating yourself when you call yourself and other people that word. remember, you are what you call yourself.

[20Frenchie]

@Poppajah some people have strive to make it to success. I care because I know what it's like to be in the hood and live on the poverty. I am an individual who grew up in the hood near the projects it's not everybody in projects that causing it just those certain individuals..if you really look and see how much of a struggle it is for the elders and for those who are trying to succeed then you will understand. It's not easy to come from the bottom to the top. I live in the projects now (ohio)

[poppajah]

yes, you're right BUT look at it like this, you're in the projects.. you better have a plan b or be working on a plan b because you're pretty much at the will of the government. just do your best so you can get the hell out the projects.

[20Frenchie]

Everyone is at the will of government believe it or not.

[20Frenchie]

@Poppajah and going to college and working so I'm not sitting around and not doing anything because at least I'm trying to do something to better myself. Some people out here are doing illegal activity in order to make a living and it is especially to find jobs during hard times like this.

[tesia96]

thank you glasax7 dey always tawken shit over the enternet but dey wont dare say dat to a black person face

[ObamaIsPathetic]

@tesia96

"dey wont dare say dat"

Do you mean "they won't dare say that"?

[696styx]

Ship the scummy niggers back to Africa

[mightyblack1]

It's cool to have a disagreement,to call some body a nigger and to send them back to Africa is straight up mean.If America white slave owner would have left black people alone ,we wouldn't be here.You people stole my people and enslave them for over 400 years and still counting.Now you should pack up and go back up to them caves in Europe and craw on all fours like you use to do 696styx.

[mightyblack1]

696STYX,motherfucker plaese,you got me and my people mixed up yours you silly upside banana eating ass fool.Boy your booty is bleeding,now go get one from your master Rush Slimbaugh.That cave up in Europe is calling you Shorty Peters.

[696styx]

Get your lowlife petty criminal ass back to Africa where they machete each other to death for no reason at all.

You are free to go.

I didn't bring you here.

Get the Fuck Out!

[mightyblack1]

696styx,what laws have your poor powerless ass made lately,that's right now because you have no power to do shit.Your poor powerless motherfucker talking shit about hurting a race of people who haven't done shit to you.Bitch if you want us to leave come make us you little dick bitch.You and yours are the masters of sin.

[696styx]

You are free to go back.

Abe Lincoln made the law.

Get out and take your welfare junkie criminal element with you. I don't owe you shit asshole.

Just remember. When you go back watch out for your own kind to be swinging a machete at you you ungrateful piece of protoplasm

[mightyblack1]

The Devil said come home.

The US Government don't mind if you leave.

Take your funky white racist poor hairy asses to that stank hole that you came from,and eat all the shit pies your hearts can stand.Just remember,to watch where your crawling before you turn into puddle of piss and shit.When you try to get the little bitty ass dick up,don't get mad if choose to jack off with your mother's tongue.

[696styx]

Fuck you toad

[mightyblack1]

696styx,I rather do your sister,I'm not into dudes your racist do do chasing mark.

[696styx]

Yo Mama is so fat

I had to put on a headlamp to find her pussy

[ObamaIsPathetic]

@mightyblack1

Typical black racist asshole

[glasax7]

dont even reply back to that ass hole 696styx he knows he would never say that to a black person on the street because he would get his ass kicked

[mightyblack1]

Right on Glasax7,you're right.

[glasax7]

if you want us gone do something about it and quit talking shit on youtube because you would never say that to a black person face.... and i can tell you where i live and you can come down and we can see what you are really about

[696styx]

GOOD!

Atlanta needs less crack head infested Nigger breeding grounds

[xxxFaustusxxx]

0:39

Embarrassing.. talks like an uneducated retard and overweight

[pjohns37]

I feel that taking away public housing will make the black community feel abandoned by the government. but public housing is not just for the black community it is for every race or every family that needs help getting into a place. If there is problems in the public housing community get security or a means of help but do not destroy.

[secret7891]

lol...oh wow I guess you really told me huh??

[secret7891]

that means exterminating you right??

[hiphopisdead93]

Lol. More ignorance.

[hatersfate2]

look how fat dem niggas are! why day niggas so fat?

[mightyblack1]

Hatersfate2,you mother so fat,they had to build another palnet so that bitch could fit.You little dick poor powerless white boys need to jack each off and they your pink asses to sleep.Coming here talking shit,you motherfuckers would say that stuff to our face and if you tought about,you would get a well whooped ass boyeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

[hatersfate2]

does it turn you on to say those things to me? "threatening me with violence", thats all the majority of black people know how to do, you should be locked up in jail

[hatersfate2]

I don't understand your primitive ebonics, your a typical nigga: jobless and dumb

[mightyblack1]

Hey bitch made ass boy{Haterfate2}just like I can't understand that ugly ass picture of you.Damn what is it,a money passing off as a powerless pink worthless motherfucker.Go talk money man talk with your mother and give her another banana for good behavior.

[hatersfate2]

your so ungrateful, my taxes are paying for your jobless monkey ass to sit around

[mightyblack1]

Hey Hatersfate2 just because you hustled up some change for crack rock,that don't mean you're employed by no chance.You upside down bouncing little piece of shit,why don't go flush yourself down the toilet,and smack that bitch that you call mom,yeah I know she aint half the man she use to be but hit he/she any way.

[ObamaIsPathetic]

@mightyblack1

What's up with black people calling white people pink? That is certainly some dumbass shit.

[mightyblack1]

@ObamaIsPathetic MOTHERFUCKER YOU ARE PINK AND YOU ARE FROM THE LAKE OF FIRE HONKEY WHO LOOKS LIKE MONKEY.YOUR MOTHER NEED TO BE SHOT FOR GIVING BIRTH TO A MONKEY LIKE YOU NOW GO SOME WHERE AND DIE BITCH MADE AS FOOL.

[hdzsound]

project dont help,

it's had only help to keep poor, poor.

[secret7891]

true!!

[hdzsound]

tradernorton01 = idiot,

i dont think you really think that comment, but you got to find it funny !

[mightyblack1]

Tradernorton01,you started by calling my people niggers but since you want to go the racist route and I to tax your pink ass.You mother is a walking shit maker,who shits any which way in that fucked Depends Diaper with a S and L on it,which stands for shity lady.Now we need to put your big fat hairy big belly ass mammy at the bottom of the lake.

[hiphopisdead93]

LMAO, You're very ignorant. Nigger species? LMAO, I wonder what would happen if a so called "nigger" fucked your mom or your sister with out a condom.

[greenboy215]

They are tearing it down and building new housing complexs....consider yourself lucky because you are gonna be living in this new development.

[mightyblack1]

Tradernorton01,we didn't bitch about your big fat nasty white mammy walking around nude now shut the fuck up pinkey.

[ShaneWoodbury]

No one rises to low expectations.

[randycash39]

it's time to move on!

[jordan484]

I agree with what they doing in this video.They should tear down all the projects all over the country :-)

[Skurgefaust]

are these people mad they are tearing down that trash?

please show your children a better enviornment they deserve it

[d3v07]

so they're just going to put a jail there to save some time?

[cocobean9698]

weird