Through archival research in Emory's Rose Library and other Atlanta repositories, architectural historian Christina Crawford and her students have lifted up Atlanta’s role in the nation’s first two federally-funded housing projects. ➡️ Feature story: https://links.emory.edu/vj | Emory University | Facebook

Techwood Homes in Atlanta was the first federally funded public housing project in the United States, opened in 1936 under President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal. But what many don’t realize is that it was originally built for white families only. Before Techwood was constructed, that land was home to a low-income, racially mixed community mostly Black families. To build the new “modern” housing, the city used urban renewal (which many Black communities called “Negro removal”), displacing th