Cabbagetown is a white inner-city neighborhood, but the consortium is supporting other projects in black neighborhoods. The Atlanta Mortgage Consortium says it hopes to finance those homes also. If we're really going to do anything significant in this city about housing, we have to have the banks involved, the city involved, the major housing developers involved. Knocking down houses is easy. Knocking down the skepticism of Cabbagetown residents will take a little longer.
Most folks are sick of it.
That's the reason for a ground-breaking. Now they can see something happening. After the speeches, the residents met inside their Savannah Street Neighborhood House for refreshments and song. Further reproduction, retransmission or distribution of these materials without the prior written consent of The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution, and any copyright holder identified in the material's copyright notice, is prohibited.