In 1994 the Atlanta Housing Authority

Atlanta Housing Authority

Atlanta Housing Authority is organized under Georgia law to develop, acquire, lease and operate affordable housing for low-income families. Today, AHA is the largest housing agency in Georgia and one of the largest in the nation, serving approximately 50,000 people.-AHA model:In 1996, AHA created...

, discouraged by the failure of its public housing projects and encouraged by the federal HOPE VI

HOPE VI

HOPE VI is a plan by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development. It is meant to revitalize the worst public housing projects in the United States into mixed-income developments. Its philosophy is largely based on New Urbanism and the concept of Defensible space.The program began...

 program, embarked on a policy of demolishing public housing projects and building mixed-income communities in their place.

Carver Homes

Located in southeast Atlanta, west of South Atlanta

South Atlanta

Although many Atlantans may refer to the south side of Atlanta, Georgia as "South Atlanta", South Atlanta is in fact an officially defined neighborhood of the city of Atlanta within the south side, and one rich in African-American history...

 and east of Joyland

Joyland (Atlanta)

Joyland is a neighborhood of small, single family homes in southeast Atlanta, Georgia and site of a former 1921 amusement park built for African Americans....

 and High Point

High Point (Atlanta)

High Point is a neighborhood of Atlanta on the south side of the city, south of the BeltLine and the neighborhood of Peoplestown, west of South Atlanta and the Villages at Carver, north of Joytown and east of Capitol View Manor. It is a small planned community containing primarily newly constructed...

. Replaced by The Villages at Carver.

East Lake Meadows

Replaced by The Villages of East Lake. Offsites replaced by Columbia Commons and Columbia Village.

Grady Homes

Located in the Sweet Auburn

Sweet Auburn

The Sweet Auburn Historic District is a historic African-American neighborhood along Auburn Avenue in Atlanta, Georgia. The name Sweet Auburn was coined by John Wesley Dobbs, referring to the "richest Negro street in the world". The Sweet Auburn district includes:*the Martin Luther King, Jr...

 neighborhood, replaced by Ashley Auburn Pointe mixed-income community.

John Hope Homes

Adjacent to Castleberry Hill

Castleberry Hill

Castleberry Hill is a neighborhood in central Atlanta, Georgia located adjacent to and southwest of the Central Business District. It is a federally recognized historic district since 1985 and became a City of Atlanta Landmark District in 2006...

 neighborhood southwest of Downtown Atlanta. Replaced by The Villages of Castleberry Hill mixed-income community.

McDaniel-Glenn Homes

41 acres (16.6 ha), 293-unit compelx in the northwest corner of Mechanicsville

Mechanicsville (Atlanta)

Mechanicsville is a neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia. It sits in the shadow of both downtown Atlanta and Turner Field. The neighborhood is bounded by:* I-20 on the north, across which is Castleberry Hill and Downtown Atlanta...

, torn down between February and May 2006. Replaced by Columbia at Mechanicsville Station.

Perry Homes

Built 1959,several buildings destroyed by tornado march 24 1975,buildings replaced 1976-77.project Demolished in 1999. Replaced by West Highlands, which includes:

• Columbia Estates, 124 townhouses and garden-style apartments, for rent
• Columbia Heritage, a 132-unit mixed-income seniors housing development
• Columbia Park Citi, a 154-unit mixed-income garden-style apartment complex
• Columbia Crest, a 152-unit mixed-use project with 5000 square feet (464.5 m²) of retail space; and
• Columbia Grove, a 138-unit multifamily project that will be the final phase

Techwood/Clark Howell

First public housing project in the United States,opened 1936 located in in the Centennial Hill

Centennial Hill

Centennial Hill is an urban district located at the northern edge of Downtown Atlanta, Georgia. The name was originally coined by Hines Interests and applied only to their planned development in the area. Although the development was never started and the land later sold, the name remained and...

 district of Downtown Atlanta

Downtown Atlanta

Downtown Atlanta is the first and largest of the three financial districts in the city of Atlanta. Downtown Atlanta is the location of many corporate or regional headquarters, city, county, state and federal government facilities, sporting facilities, and is the central tourist attraction of the city...

, replaced by Centennial Place.
Kimberly Courts off-site replaced by Ashley Courts at Cascade.
Other offsite replaced by Ashley Terrace at West End.

Antoine Graves

Senior citizen highrise built 1965. Architect John C. Portman, Jr. One of Portman's earliest and most influential projects, his first atrium building and only public housing project. Located at 126 SE Hilliard St. SE, Downtown. Demolished 2009 including annex. Portman pleaded to save the building to no avail.

Bankhead Courts

Built 1970.As of January 2011, "demolition was underway".

Herndon Homes

Located in the east part of the English Avenue

English Avenue (Atlanta)

The English Avenue is a neighborhood of Atlanta just west of the Georgia Dome and Downtown Atlanta. It is bordered:* on the east by Gray St., the Southern Railway North Avenue Yards Historic District and Downtown Atlanta...

 neighborhood, east of Northside at John and Grey. Built 1941.
As of January 2011, "demolition was almost complete". Named for Alonzo F. Herndon, born a slave, founded the Atlanta Life Insurance Company and became Atlanta's richest African American.
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Roosevelt House

Senior citizen highrise located at the southwest corner of Centennial Olympic Park

Centennial Olympic Park

Centennial Olympic Park is a 21 acre public park located in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, USA that is owned and operated by the Georgia World Congress Center Authority. The park was built by the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games as part of the infrastructure improvements for the Centennial...

 Drive and North Avenue. Built 1973. Contained 150 apartments. Demolished with explosives on February 27, 2011.

University Homes

Built in 1938 on the site of the former Beaver Slide

Beaver Slide

Beaver Slide was an African American slum area near Atlanta University documented as early as 1882.In 1925 the area was targeted for a "cleanup" by city and university authorities....

 slum. Seen as the African American counterpart to Techwood Homes

Techwood Homes

Techwood Homes was the first public housing project in the United States, opened just before the First Houses. Located in Atlanta, Georgia, it replaced a shantytown known as Tanyard Bottom or Tech Flats. It was completed on August 15, 1936, but was dedicated on November 29 of the previous year by...

, the first public housing project in the nation. Architect William Augustus Edwards

William Augustus Edwards

William Augustus Edwards, also known as William A. Edwards, was an Atlanta-based American architect renowned for the educational buildings, courthouses and other public and private buildings that he designed in Florida, Georgia and his native South Carolina.- Early life and education :William...

. Demolished 2008-9. As of April 2011 still in the planning stages to become another mixed-income community.