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• Last Marietta housing project to be demolished

  Other cities follow model to deconcentrate poverty as established by the Atlanta Housing Authority. "...The MHA (Marietta Housing Authority) razing and redevelopment model is similar to that used by the Atlanta Housing Authority. For years AHA received ...

• Can Debate Save the World, or Does It Just Help You Get Into a Better College?

  Slate, the online magazine, references AHA's lauded middle-school policy debate program in a recent post:"…The debaters who actually go into their communities and encourage more public dialogue are the policy debaters. They founded the National Associatio...

• Atlanta Housing Authority rebuts Creative Loafing

  Responding to a Letter from Hope Boldon, CEO of the Integral Youth and Family Project, Creative Loafing's writer posted the following on his blog: "Atlanta Housing Authority's blog features a post taking issue with an August 13 Fresh Loaf post I wrote abo...

• No, AHA's Senior Residents Aren't Dying At 'Alarming' Rate; Media Credibility Is

  By Hope Boldon When a city undergoes transformational change, there are bound to be critics. Such was the case as the Atlanta Housing Authority began its strategic attack on the root causes of multi-generational poverty in the city. By demolishing most o...

• From Russia With Love

  Nearly 60 years ago, Alexander Vitebsky was a young Soviet officer stationed in Siberia, part of a massive force assembled to try to fulfill Joseph Stalin's dream of invading Alaska. In 1990, as the Soviet Union began to disintegrate, Vitebsky finally re...