Rodriquez Riley grew up in the Old Fourth Ward, where the 32-year-old used to admire street art. But the Black father of four cannot afford to live there now.
“They knocked down projects, built townhomes,” Riley said. There’s “a lot of stuff coming down, like dollar stores that we budget off of.”
Now Riley and his family live downtown with his mother.
Atlanta’s gentrification wave washes over historic Old Fourth Ward
Data released Wednesday by the National Community Reinvestment Coalition says, among the nation’s major metropolitan areas, Atlanta had the second highest number of Census tracts flip from majority Black to majority white between 1980 and 2020…