No More Projects

ATLANTA (AP) - Atlanta is on its way to becoming the first major U.S. city to eliminate all of its large public housing projects. And cities from Boston to Los Angeles are following its lead.

For more than 15 years, projects where some 1.2 million families live have been razed. They've been replaced with a mix of higher-rent and subsidized apartments and homes.

But advocates for the poor worry that not enough subsidized homes remain, and thousands of families are being dumped on the street. Less than half of the 92,000 units demolished by cities have been replaced with traditional public housing.

California Rep. Maxine Waters has requested a demolition moratorium and 20,000 additional Section 8 vouchers to support
displaced families.