Worst looking hoods in Atlanta (Berlin: neighborhood, school, median income)

[Turnerbro]

Man this is crazy I wasn't aware Atlanta had this level of abandonment. It doesn't look anywhere near as bad as Detroit, St.Louis or Baltimore. But still crazy.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3OxfzStWBk

[Ant131531]

Atlanta IMO has a lot of similarities with Chicago....one half of the city is booming with new developments, businesses, and jobs. The other half is stagnant. The difference is somehow Atlanta grows...Chicago doesn't.

But at least Atlanta is attempting to give something to the hoods of the west and south. The westside beltline trail is something I don't think Chicago(or Detroit, St Louis or other dangerous Midwestern city) would ever do until gentrification was already in full swing. Chicago has something similar to the beltline, but of course, it's only in the gentrified part of the city.

[Howest2008]

Originally Posted by Turnerbro

Man this is crazy I wasn't aware Atlanta had this level of abandonment. It doesn't look anywhere near as bad as Detroit, St.Louis or Baltimore. But still crazy.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3OxfzStWBk

London and Paris and Berlin have hoods too.....

[citidata18]

As a native Detroiter, Bankhead is the only area in Atlanta that comes closest to Detroit's desolation (and it's still not even close).

[Iconographer]

Originally Posted by Ant131531

Atlanta IMO has a lot of similarities with Chicago....one half of the city is booming with new developments, businesses, and jobs. The other half is stagnant. The difference is somehow Atlanta grows...Chicago doesn't.

But at least Atlanta is attempting to give something to the hoods of the west and south. The westside beltline trail is something I don't think Chicago(or Detroit, St Louis or other dangerous Midwestern city) would ever do until gentrification was already in full swing. Chicago has something similar to the beltline, but of course, it's only in the gentrified part of the city.

Although I find the bolded to be a gross exaggeration, I agree with your defense of the Beltline and development efforts to the south and west.

[NorthAtlanta]

Originally Posted by citidata18

As a native Detroiter, Bankhead is the only area in Atlanta that comes closest to Detroit's desolation (and it's still not even close).

+1 Sure the areas in the video look bad but you have to visit some of the areas in Detroit and Chicago to realize how bad they are..

[samiwas1]

Originally Posted by Turnerbro

Man this is crazy I wasn't aware Atlanta had this level of abandonment. It doesn't look anywhere near as bad as Detroit, St.Louis or Baltimore. But still crazy.

This level of neglect and abandonment is extremely concentrated to the area just west of downtown, mostly surrounded by Donald Lee Hollowell Pkwy, Northside Drive (mostly James P Brawley), Westview, and West lake.

I went through the video and highlighted the streets on a map... There was only about a minute and a half of the video I couldn't figure out.



Yes...it's bad over there. It's the last remaining area in town of truly poor people with no money to fix their neighborhood up. And much of the area is owned by disinterested investors and speculators just waiting for that area to become the next big thing so they can sell these run down properties they bought for mere thousands, to sell for a hundred thousand.

[TJJT]

The crazy thing is the worse parts of Atlanta weren't that bad before the nineties. ATL got everyone who couldn't afford to stay in NYC and NJ and MI and then anyone who made below median income got pushed in to concentrated areas..

[bryantm3]

worst looking yes, most dangerous not really anymore. i mean it's still the bluff and vine city but it's not what it was 10 years ago, and 10 years ago it was hardly what it was in the 90s according to oldschoolchevy, who grew up around there and might see this thread and have some more firsthand input.


westside village is not that bad. i don't know why they filmed that as an example of being run down.

[Citykid3785]

I appreciated watching the video, because I'll otherwise never drive through those areas myself

I guess to me that didnt look discernibly different from the hoods I've seen in any large metro looked the same as North Minneapolis, Southside of Chicago, or parts of KCMO I've been through?