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Judi Lynn

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Tue Aug 11, 2020, 12:17 AM Aug 2020

Report: Agency in Alabama city segregated public housing


Updated 4:17 pm CDT, Monday, August 10, 2020

DECATUR, Ala. (AP) — A federal review found that a public housing authority in Alabama let white people live in riverfront towers with scenic views and other amenities while segregating Black people in another apartment development without the frills, a newspaper reported.

A Housing and Urban Development study determined that 94% of the Decatur Housing Authority's units in two towers with views of the Tennessee River are occupied by white people, while all the units in a housing project farther from the river are occupied by Black people, The Decatur Daily reported.

The developments provide subsidized homes for low-income elderly people. Minorities on the waiting list to get into the towers were passed over as units there were filled with white people, the report said.

Authority workers repeatedly explained the lack of Black residents in the waterfront buildings by saying elderly Black tenants don't like high-rise buildings and prefer living in "garden-style units so they can sit on their porch and come and go as they please,’“ according to a letter from HUD.

More:
https://www.chron.com/news/article/Report-Agency-in-Alabama-city-segregated-public-15472525.php
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Report: Agency in Alabama city segregated public housing (Original Post) Judi Lynn Aug 2020 OP
Why aren't we asking the residents? Karadeniz Aug 2020 #1
Apparently it's two different worlds. At the very end of the article, it says: Judi Lynn Aug 2020 #2

Judi Lynn

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2. Apparently it's two different worlds. At the very end of the article, it says:
Tue Aug 11, 2020, 04:34 AM
Aug 2020
Westgate tenant Carrie Garth, 76, said she welcomes promised improvements but will believe it when she sees it.

“Baseboards are coming loose from the floors. We have a problem with bugs. The buildings are old and they’re not kept up. I’ve been here nine years, and we don’t get a paint job or anything. My cabinet isn’t level so things roll off, and I’ve got a leak under the sink,” Garth said.

The journalist(s) didn't spend much time with them, but it seems as if they've been treated very poorly.

It's doubtful anyone in the other part of the development has gone through this kind of shoddy, and worse, living conditions.
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