Georgia Residents Displaced from Affordable Housing Denied Decent Places to Live

by Esther Schrader

It had seemed like such a blessing.

A single parent living in a homeless shelter, eight months pregnant with her second child, Ayran Tucker was ecstatic when a townhouse opened up in Forest Cove, an affordable housing complex in Southeast Atlanta.

At the 296-unit development on a main bus line, Tucker, now 33, hoped she could build a stable home for her children. Despite her community college degree, Tucker was making just $13 per hour, the demands of parenthood and poverty making it hard for her to find better pay. Subsidized housing seemed to offer her and her kids a chance.

But within months of her move to Forest Cove in 2014, Tucker’s hopes began to unravel. At first, it was what was happening outside her three-bedroom apartment that terrified her – the tat-tat-tat of bullets, the fighting, the shouting between people at the breaking point that had her sleeping fearfully in the same bed with her kids.

Then, the nightmare came into her home.

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Source: Southern Poverty Law Center