New data released by the city of Atlanta and nonprofit partners highlights deep disparities in health, income and opportunity across neighborhoods.
Mayor Andre Dickens described the findings as a “tale of two cities” while launching a neighborhood reinvestment initiative to address long-standing inequities. The data traces many of the current inequities back to redlining policies from the 1930s, which continue to shape outcomes across a diagonal divide in the city.
To address these gaps, Dickens has proposed extending tax allocation districts, a move he says could generate more than $5 billion for citywide improvements…