Mayor: Maynard Jackson (1974-82)

Paul Austin, Coca-Cola’s chief executive officer, proposed clearing Techwood Homes, relocating its residents to the outskirts of the city, and replacing the property with moderate-income housing and shopping– (Techwood had recently integrated and gone from all white to 50% Black – they were also located very close to the Coca-Cola headquarters) Mayor Maynard Jackson quashed efforts to demolish, this time.

Housing and community Development Grant of 1977 laid statutory framework for Urban Development Action Grants (UDAG)[1] 

[1] https://getd.libs.uga.edu/pdfs/holliman_irene_v_201005_phd.pdf (this funding program was later terminated by Congress ten years later in 1988)

Congress's Neighborhood Development Plan (NDP) ends

Community Development Block Grant Program (CDBG) program initiated by Congress and used as the source of funding for future housing development projects