Twenty years later, the damage is still visible in the last U.S. city to host the Summer Olympics: Atlanta. Atlanta tore down most of Techwood and the neighboring Clark Howell complex to make way for the 1996 Olympics. New federal laws eliminated previous requirements that cities replace any public housing units they destroyed with an equal number elsewhere. “The deal is, what do you mean by ‘affordable’?” said Deirdre Oakley, a Georgia State professor who examined the effects of Atlanta’s continued displacement of public housing residents after the Olympics. “If you’re talking about the original public housing residents ... it’s not affordable at that income level.” A similar process played out in London, the host of the 2012 Olympics.

Source: Huffington Post August 17, 2016 22:16 UTC