Instead of seeing housing values decline, as has happened in so many mostly Black cities, housing prices have shot through the roof. Instead of poor folks languishing in dilapidated housing projects, some of them are living in beautiful communities with gardens and golf courses and affluent neighbors. Renee Lewis Glover, director of the Atlanta Housing Authority, deserves the credit for that renaissance. But she wouldn't have been there if it wasn't for Campbell. The city's finances are in order.
Crime is down.
Fred Prewitt, the former Civil Service chief who was fronting for White companies, being carted to jail, and Dewey Clark, the mayor's one-time friend who claims Campbell's a crook. We also hear about gambling and high-priced speeches and official probes into city corruption. And yet, Atlanta is prosperous, vibrant. Middle-class people are moving in and transforming neighborhoods. Atlanta is a city where a bungalow on a postage stamp fetches 400 grand.