Displacement today
Segregation
1990s–1996
City of Atlanta
General area only

The Olympics and the end of Techwood Homes

Before the 1996 Games the city demolished Techwood and Clark Howell Homes and replaced them with Centennial Place, a mixed-income community with far fewer subsidized units. Only 78 original Techwood residents moved back.

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The record

Except for a few historic buildings, Techwood was torn down in the run-up to the Olympics, and Techwood and Clark Howell together became Centennial Place. Its first phase opened just before the Games (Wikipedia). Former residents were relocated with Section 8 vouchers. Only 78 returned; Centennial Place had far fewer subsidized units than Techwood. Atlanta Housing used the federal HOPE VI program for such conversions, and Wikipedia's list records the demolition of most of the city's large family projects between the late 1990s and 2011: Perry Homes (1999), Carver (2000), Capitol Homes (2003), Bowen and University Homes (2009) and Herndon (2010). Estimates of total Olympic-era displacement vary widely by source and are not given here.

Today: Centennial Place, between Georgia Tech and downtown.