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This article completely fails to address the reality of visiting South DeKalb. Go drive around in Google Street view and you'll see abandoned commercial proper

This article completely fails to address the reality of visiting South DeKalb. Go drive around in Google Street view and you'll see abandoned commercial property after abandoned commercial property. Businesses struggle to exist there. The problems there cannot be fixed by zoning more commercial real estate and the comments about healthy restaurants are laughable: look at the restaurants that thrive in the area in question and look at the areas with the abundance of healthy restaurants. There's zero overlap. If a salad bar chain could do well in South DeKalb, they'd have no shortage of venues to consider. Atlanta is self-segregated in a multitude of dimensions that are much deeper than race.

perfmode 8y ago
you’re missing the big picture. https://www.atlantastudies.org/2017/09/07/jason-rhodes-geographies-of-privilege-and-exclusion-the-1938-home-owners-loan-corporation-residential-security-map-of-atlanta/ https://www.atlantastudies.org/2017/09/07/jason-rhodes-geogr...
- throwaway59928 8y ago
  That article you posted uses a set of maps as its source, but if you go to the maps they refer to, a lot of cities have changed drastically where there was redlining. Atlanta may not have changed much from the redlined map, but Los Angeles and San Francisco definitely have, and those were the only ones I looked at. Many of the areas that were redlined are full of multimillion dollar SFRs and lots of great shops and commercial properties.