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Ways to get involved: (2022)
Bowen Choice Homes HUD Proposal (2022)
Bowen Choice Homes HUD Implementation Plan (2024)
https://engageatlantahousing.org/reimagine-bowen
Skip Mason's Vanishing Black Atlanta history: https://www.facebook.com/groups/skipmasonblackatlantahistory
For more information visit:
1. Holliman, Irene. "Techwood Homes." New Georgia Encyclopedia, https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/techwood-homes/
2. Hankins, Katherine & Puckett, Mechele & Oakley, Deirdre & Ruel, Erin. (2014). Forced Mobility: The Relocation of Public-Housing Residents in Atlanta. Environmental Planning A. 46. 2932-2949. 10.1068/a45742. 3.
4.Photos: Atlanta Journal Constitution Photographic Archives. Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library.
5. Holliman, Irene. "Techwood Homes." New Georgia Encyclopedia, last modified Aug 26, 2020. https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/techwood-homes/
6. Schank, Katie Marages. Chapter 2: “’Everyone is watching our progress:’ Techwood and University Homes as Manipulated Modernist Models,” in “Producing the Projects: Atlanta and the Cultural Creation of Public Housing, 1933-2011.” Ph.D. diss., George Washington University, Washington, D.C., 2016, 88-123
7. Vale, Lawrence J. Purging the Poorest: Public Housing and the Design Politics of Twice-cleared Communities. Historical Studies of Urban America. Chicago; London: University of Chicago Press, 2013.
8. Crawford, Christina E. “Atlanta Citizenship and Housing, Success and Setback.” Platform, June 14, 2021, platformspace.net.
9. Ruechel, Frank. “New Deal Public Housing, Urban Poverty, and Jim Crow: Techwood and University Homes in Atlanta.” The Georgia Historical Quarterly, vol. 81, no. 4, Georgia Historical Society, 1997, pp. 915–37, http://www.jstor.org/stable/40550189.
10. Tester, Griff & Ruel, Erin & Anderson, Angela & Reitzes, Donald & Oakley, Deirdre. (2011). Sense of Place Among Atlanta Public Housing Residents. Journal of Urban Health. 88. 10.1007/s11524-011-9579-0
11. Greenbaum S. Social capital and deconcentration: theoretical and policy paradoxes of the Hope VI program. N Am Dialogue. 2002; 5(1): 9–13
12. WHO GETS THE FINAL NO? TENANT PARTICIPATION IN PUBLIC HOUSING REDEVELOPMENT, 9 Cornell J. L. & Pub. Pol'y 659
13. Promise Enforcement in Public Housing: Lessons from Rousseau and Hundertwasser, 76 Tul. L. Rev. 1073