- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Techwood Homes
- Creator:
- Holliman, Irene V.
- Date of Original:
- 2008-06-20
- Subject:
- Dwellings--Georgia--Atlanta
Atlanta (Ga.)--Buildings, structures, etc.
Neighborhoods--Georgia--Atlanta
Atlanta (Ga.)--Social conditions
Housing--Georgia--Atlanta
Public housing--Georgia--Atlanta - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- articles
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
- Description:
- Encyclopedia article about Techwood Homes. In 1935 Techwood Homes became the first public housing project built in the United States. The federally subsidized housing, located immediately northwest of downtown Atlanta, Georgia and sandwiched in between the Coca-Cola Company's headquarters and the Georgia Institute of Technology's campus, replaced a fourteen-block slum area known as Techwood Flats. Residents of the Flats lived in cheap rental housing that dated back to the 1880s, and they labored either in the nearby manufacturing and warehousing district on the west side of Atlanta or for low wages downtown. Even before the Great Depression hit, impoverished residents of the Flats endured overcrowded, unsafe, and unsanitary housing conditions.
- Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/techwood-homes/
- Language:
- eng
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